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Article: Baseball Cancels Season Opener in Japan
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- March 19, 2003
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Dateline: PHOENIX
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Seattle Mariners closer Kazuhiro Sasaki's mother was coming from Sendai
City and his wife and two children from Yokohama to watch him pitch
in Tokyo.
Seattle reliever Shigetoshi Hasegawa had purchased 120 tickets for
each game against the Oakland Athletics for relatives and friends
in his homeland.
Major league baseball decided Tuesday that opening the season in Japan
wasn't worth the risk in a time of possible war in Iraq, canceling
next week's series between Seattle and Oakland.
"I was so disappointed," Sasaki said. "I was looking forward to meeting
my family in Japan."
A's third base coach Ron Washington was ...