Shohei Ohtani teamed up with New Balance in 2023 to donate 60,000 baseball gloves to some 20,000 elementary schools across Japan

Shohei Ohtani wanted more children in Japan to experience baseball, so he joined forces with New Balance to put thousands of gloves into elementary schools across the country.

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