Article: That sweet smell ; Hillman eyes success back in America with Royals.

For the sake of his family, Trey Hillman decided last summer he was done managing baseball in Japan. A baseball lifer, the 45-year- old Hillman cherished his time leading the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, but he wanted his son, T.J., 14, and daughter, Brianna, 11, to experience their teen-age years in America. That's why he told the Ham Fighters in August he wasn't exercising his option for the 2008 season.

Then again, he missed the smells of American baseball, too.

"We played mostly indoor games" in Japan, "so you miss being outside," the first-year Kansas City Royals manager said yesterday. "You miss being outside and smelling that grass and smelling the pine tar and the dirt. We don't use ...

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