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Article: Baseball scraps season-opening Japan visit

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March 19, 2003
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PHOENIX - Ichiro Suzuki insists there would have been no trouble once the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics actually arrived in Japan. Getting there might have been the risky part.

Major league baseball took no chances, deciding Tuesday to cancel next week's season-opening series in Tokyo between Seattle and Oakland because of the threat of war in Iraq.

"You can't just open the door and be in Japan," said Suzuki, Seattle's star leadoff hitter. "You have to take the logistics into account. Japan is probably the safer place but getting to Japan is what you have to worry about."

The teams were scheduled to leave Wednesday for games March 25-26 at the Tokyo Dome.

"Given the uncertainty that ...

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