Touring Hideki Matsui’s baseball museum
NOMI, Japan -- “If you build it, they won’t come.” At least that was part of the reason why Hideki Matsui’s parents opened a museum for their son, creating a place for fans of the Japanese baseball star to go instead of showing up at the doorstep of their home wanting to see memorabilia or talk about Hideki.
The visits began after Matsui was drafted in the first round by the Yomiuri Giants in 1993 and only increased after that. According to Hideki’s mother, Saeko Matsui, it wasn’t just locals stopping by. “Giants fans are everywhere in Japan,” she said.
The Matsui Hideki Baseball Museum (in Japan, the last name is written first) is found in the city of Nomi, Ishikawa prefecture, in central Japan. It is located very close to the house where Hideki was born in 1974 in the town of
