Shohei Ohtani to donate 60,000 baseball gloves to elementary schools in Japan

MLB free agent Shohei Ohtani announced he is donating tens of thousands of baseball gloves to every elementary school in Japan to inspire the younger generation to take up the sport. Key details: Ohtani, 29, announced the donation in an Instagram post on Thursday, writing that he will be donating approximately 60,000 youth baseball gloves to “every elementary school in Japan,” which “comes out to around 20,000. I'm hoping the kids can spend their days happily with a lot of energy through baseball,” Ohtani wrote.

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