Former Major League Baseball manager Bobby Valentine and U.S. Meat Export Federation President Philip Seng show "Ryan & Bobby" special lunch boxes of rice topped with grilled U.S. beef and pork during a press conference in Tokyo Tuesday, July 17, 2007. Seng is in Japan to promote American meat in Japan, setting July as the special campaign month and selling the lunch boxes featuring portraits of Valentine, now a manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines of Japan's Pacific League, and his friend legendary MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan, at 1,000 yen (US$ 8.20).
In case you don't get Sports Illustrated you can read the article about Bobby V's success as a manager and icon in Japan.
The fake moustache is my all-time favorite Bobby V moment.
ReplyDeleteI have to thank Bobby V. In the article it said he took Star Ledger beat write Lawrence Rocca with him to Japan. Thank you Bobby. He was the worst writer ever. He is the only writer I have wrote to, complaining he had no idea what he was talking about. I used to scream at the newspaper. I guess its perfect he went with my least favorite manager of all time.
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