The Royals had seen their quiet place in the baseball landscape turned upside down for nearly a week in anticipation of Daisuke Matsuzaka's major league debut as Japanese photographers and reporters swarmed the landscape. When it was over yesterday, they were glad they could go back to their bit of solitude but had a better understanding ... (Full article: 1138 words)

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