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The votes were more of a tribute to his popularity and past greatness than a reward for his current performance

Despite Yonamine’s slow start, the Giants captured first place ten fifa 15 coins days into the season and remained on top until late May. As the weather warmed, Wally’s hitting picked up somewhat. He hit homers in con- secutive games against the Carp in early June and again two weeks later against the Whales. But his average remained in the low .200s.

Whereas in past years, Wally would have been infuriated by his poor hitting, he took the off-year in stride. “During my first nine years, when I went 0 for 4, I got upset because I knew that I could do better. If I didn’t do well in a game, I would come home grumpy, and not talk to Jane. I shouldn’t have done that, but baseball was my life and if I didn’t do well, I wouldn’t earn enough to send my kids to college. Nineteen sixty was different. Jane told me later how surprised she was because I used to come home smiling even if I went 0 for 4. You see, deep down I knew that I didn’t have it anymore, so I didn’t get as upset.”

By the All-Star break, the Giants had fallen into second place, two games behind the Dragons. Wally received thirty-eight thousand votes for the fans’ team, placing him fifth among the Central League outfielders. The votes were more of a tribute to his popularity and past greatness than a reward for his current performance. This time, however, Mizuhara did not select Wally as a reserve—for the first time since his rookie year, he could relax with his family during the break.

The Yonamines had enrolled Amy and Wallis, now seven and four years old, at the American School of Japan. Wally and Jane never con- sidered sending the children to a Japanese school. They wanted them to get a strong education in English since they would probably end up living in the United States. All three children, however, grew up speak- ing Japanese. Although they spoke English at home, just by living in the country, watching television, and playing with friends in the neigh- borhood, they learned the native language before starting school. Yet, because they learned Japanese through friends and television, they had trouble reading kanji. “Strangers used to get irritated with me,” Amy recalls, “because I looked Japanese and spoke without an accent, but asked for help reading signs at the train station. They would say, ‘Why don’t you just read it yourself?’ I always felt like a foreigner in Japan. We may have been raised in Japan, look Japanese, and speak without an accent, but we always considered ourselves foreigners.”

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