Front pages newspapers reporting on the death of Hideki Irabu in Tokyo on July 30 2011 Japanese baseball fans players and sports writers mourned the...
{"Image ImageDescription": "Front pages newspapers reporting on the death of Hideki Irabu in Tokyo on July 30, 2011.  Japanese baseball fans, players and sports writers mourned the death of the retired pitcher who pioneered the move across the Pacific into American Major League Baseball. Irabu, 42, died in an apparent suicide after several years out of the sport, but is remembered fondly at home for his heyday with the Yankees, when he helped the New York club win the World Series in 1998 and 1999.       AFP PHOTO/Toru YAMANAKA (Photo credit should read TORU YAMANAKA/AFP via Getty Images)", "Image Copyright": "2011 AFP"}