Keiichi Hirano, left, a Japanese major league baseball player pitches to a local kid during a friendly game at a baseball clinic Jan. 24 on Camp Kinser. This was the first baseball clinic held on Camp Kinser. Approximately 50 Japanese and American children participated in the event. The clinic consisted of Hirano teaching fundamental skills and techniques followed by a game. The day ended with prizes, lunch and a cake for all who participated. Hirano is with the Orix Buffaloes. - Keiichi Hirano, left, a Japanese major league baseball player pitches to a local kid during a friendly game at a baseball clinic Jan. 24 on Camp Kinser. This was the first baseball clinic held on Camp Kinser. Approximately 50 Japanese and American children participated in the event. The clinic consisted of Hirano teaching fundamental skills and techniques followed by a game. The day ended with prizes, lunch and a cake for all who participated. Hirano is with the Orix Buffaloes.

Nakachi Hibiki, left, practices his pitch with Lance Cpl. James Owens, right, before a baseball game between Marine Corps Community Services team, the Cyclones, and Ginowan City team, Shimashi Dreams, Sept. 27 on the Camp Foster baseball fields. Hibiki, 12, is a Ginowan City native, and Owens is a Salt Lake City, Utah, native and an ammunition stock recording Section clerk with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force. Four Ginowan City baseball teams came to Camp Foster to play ball with four MCCS teams. - Nakachi Hibiki, left, practices his pitch with Lance Cpl. James Owens, right, before a baseball game between Marine Corps Community Services team, the Cyclones, and Ginowan City team, Shimashi Dreams, Sept. 27 on the Camp Foster baseball fields. Hibiki, 12, is a Ginowan City native, and Owens is a Salt Lake City, Utah, native and an ammunition stock recording Section clerk with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force. Four Ginowan City baseball teams came to Camp Foster to play ball with four MCCS teams.