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International Pastime will look at baseball's influence outside the U.S.Yes, apparently that's how some teams do it, so says Yankees pitcher Kei Igawa who played for the Hanshin Tigers in the Japanese League last year. From the New York Times
After contributing to a Hanshin victory, Igawa's manager would frequently hand him an envelope stuffed with yen, usually the equivalent of about $1,000. Igawa was free to spend the money as he liked. He usually saved it and kept the envelope as a souvenir.Dude, I knew these players were rich, but come on, keeping $1,000 as a souvenir?! That's quite insulting to the rest of us. But then again, as former Major Leaguer C.J. Nitkowski, who now plays in the Japanese League, put it -- with today's salary it's nothing more than ashtray change at best. Amen. Lets keep this all in perspective though, shouldn't our collegiate athletes and boosters already be used to this?The financial exchange, which is separate from a player's salary, is common in Japanese baseball and known as kantoku shou, which, translated literally, means manager prize. The foreign players in Nippon Professional Baseball commonly refer to it as fight money.
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