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Hideki Matsui is getting put on a stamp

By
Craig Calcaterra,

By
Craig Calcaterra

Published March 27, 2013 11:00 AM

File picture shows New York Yankees' Matsui speaking to reporters during "workout day" before MLB's 2009 World Series between New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies in New York — New York Yankees’ Hideki Matsui speaks to reporters at Yankee Stadium during “workout day” before the 2009 Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series between the Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies in New York, in this file picture taken October 27, 2009. No longer the fearsome, fire-breathing “Godzilla” of old, injury-ravaged Matsui retired from baseball with his head held high and as a huge source of national pride for Japan. The 38-year-old slugger, World Series MVP in 2009 with the New York Yankees, helped put Japanese baseball on the map after the trail-blazing Hideo Nomo and mercurial Ichiro Suzuki had enjoyed success across the Pacific. To match Newsmaker BASEBALL-JAPAN/MATSUI REUTERS/Mike Segar/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT BASEBALL)

If they put living ballplayers on stamps in the U.S. and people traded them and stuff maybe the postal service wouldn’t be billions in the red.

Wait: the baseball card injury had that model and it cratered too. Never mind:

The Japanese Post Office is putting Hideki Matsui on a stamp: sanspo.com/baseball/photo…

— Patrick Newman (@npbtracker) March 27, 2013

I’m assuming now that this sets the record for the largest porn collection owned by the subject of a postage stamp. Previously held by John Phillip Sousa.