September 17, 2014, the weather is clear.
In the early morning, Masao Ohtake woke up from the bed at home, his wife was still asleep next to him; he carefully lifted the quilt and unusually took a shower early in the morning before starting his usual grooming.
After finishing his grooming, he took out the jersey he had diligently cared for over many years from the wardrobe.
This is the jersey from the 1999 season of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks: that year, under the leadership of the great Manager Wang Zhenzhi, along with famous players like Akiyama Koji and Kodama Komei, they defeated the Chunichi Dragons with a score of 4 to 1, reclaiming Japan's Number One after 35 years — at that time, Masao Ohtake was a member of the Eagle Road Alliance, personally witnessing this scene in the stands of the Nagoya Dome.
