"Here they come, here they come, the professional baseball players are entering!"
Seeing the professional players about to enter through the passageway, the local Fukushima fans leaning against the railings near the player entrance quickly turned around to notify others in the stands to get ready.
And when Lin Guanglai, chatting and laughing with Andrew Jones beside him, walked into the stadium, he saw this scene:
A huge TIFO was unfurled on the stands of Pancheng Green Stadium. Against a white background, two large lines of text in red conveyed gratitude for the strong support given by the professional baseball league and players to Fukushima Prefecture, a major disaster area, in the year of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Additionally, on the blank space above the red text, there were expressions of gratitude written by 2,013 local children with markers, thanking professional baseball for bringing the All-Star game to Pancheng.
