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Otani donates 60,000 gloves to every elementary school in Japan

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Shohei Ohtani, who is expected to sign a contract totaling $500 million, or about 653 billion won, in Major League Baseball's Stovepipe League, has donated baseball gloves to every elementary school in Japan.

"I am donating a total of 60,000 baseball gloves, three each, to all 20,000 elementary schools in Japan," Otani announced on his social media accounts on Sept. 9 (KST).

He added, "I hope they will have a healthy and enjoyable day through baseball, and I look forward to playing baseball with the children who use these gloves in the future."

The gloves are made by New Balance, with whom Ohtani signed a contract to use the gloves starting this year. 온라인카지노 

At 100,000 won per glove, that's a total of 6 billion won.

Santa Otani's gift, which came over a month early, consisted of three gloves per box.

Ohtani posted a photo on social media of himself wearing the same ones he donated, along with an autographed note saying, "Let's play baseball!