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Article: Baldacci visits Japan's baseball museum

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TOKYO - On the afternoon of Japan's final World Series game, a small group of Maine officials toured the country's Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in honor of Maine native Horace Wilson, who brought baseball to Japan in 1872.

"If it wasn't for Horace Wilson, we would not have Daisuke Matsuzaka," Gov. John Baldacci said Thursday, referring to the famous Red Sox starting pitcher. The museum is located inside the Tokyo Dome baseball stadium.

Baldacci, Maine Economic and Community Development Commissioner John Richardson, Maine Office of Tourism Deputy Director Carolann Ouellette and Maine International Trade Center staff members Janine Bisaillon-Cary and Wade Merritt toured the facility and ...

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