Museum of Dice-K

Daisuke Matsuzaka is a national treasure back home in Japan, and now they're making it official. On February 23rd, the Daisuke Matsuzaka Museum will open in Wakkanai, Hokkaido (his father's hometown). The museum will contain over 180 different items of Dice-K's baseball gear, including uniforms he's worn and trophies he's won over his entire career in amateur and professional baseball, and free sample fart inhalents.  Plus free onions to test his 'gyro fart' pitching theory for yourself. (See my other related Dice-K article). Godzilla Oye, vice president of the city's athletic association, spearheaded the effort to get approval for the museum -- and Dice-K has given it his stamp of approval. The plans are to build the museum at an estimated cost of 140 million yen, on a plot measuring 230 to 270 sq. meters. There's no announced admission fee yet, but the organizers said they want to "keep admission fees as low as possible in accordance with the wishes of people close to Matsuzaka ... (link)