In vintage form, the 51-year-old Matsui launched a batting practice pitch over the fences as local youth players watched in ...

Matsui arrived in Toronto with the New York Yankees and was greeted by an advertisement the Blue Jays took out in the Sunday newspapers urging fans -- in English and Japanese -- to come out and boo ...

The new age version of legendary Japanese slugger Hideki Matsui is expected to be available in free agency later this year, and the New York Yankees are among the early favorites to sign him. When ...

Despite being 20 years removed from his prime, New York Yankees great Hideki Matsui still can crush baseballs over outfield fences. When Matsui arrived in New York in 2003, there was hope that he ...

In an era when nicknames have become decreasingly creative, one of the good ones came from Japan with slugger Hideki Matsui. Matsui, who recently retired after a successful run with the New York ...

Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani has broken Hideki Matsui's record for the most homers hit by a Japanese-born player in Major League Baseball. Ohtani crushed a two-run homer deep into the ...

Hideki Matsui may have played his last major league game four years ago, but he showed he still had some power in his bat as he hit a long home run at the New York Yankees' annual Old-Timers' Game on ...

Growing up in Japan, a baseball-obsessed Shohei Ohtani would sit by his television in awe with what Hideki Matsui was doing ...

He shared a field with Hideki Matsui -- in Oakland! -- played alongside Joey Votto on Team Canada, stared down José Bautista ...