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Before Hideki Matsui signed a one year, $6.5 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels, he had never known a major league team other than the New York Yankees. The reasons that Matsui left New York; injury concerns, payroll, age, meant nothing to the bleacher creatures who worshipped him at the height of his outfield playing days in the Bronx. Matsui was and will always be a true Yankee, even though he played Japanese baseball for the Yomiuri Giants for nine years before turning down their record offer (6 years, $64 million) to play for the Bombers. Nicknamed “Godzilla” originally for his skin issues, and later adopted because of his explosive hitting, Matsui cemented his place in Yankee lore last year as he destroyed Philadelphia pitching in the World Series. Because of th ...

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