Underwear maker celebrates new Japanese baseball team with special bra

Yahoo! News ^ | Fri, Mar 25, 2005 | Offbeat - AFP

[kahoutek]

TOKYO (AFP) - An underwear maker celebrated the birth of Japan's first new professional baseball team in 50 years with a commemorative bra shaped like baseballs each bearing the team mascots.

The bra is made of synthetic leather and has dolls of the team's furry mascots "Clutch" and female "Clucchina" clutching the side of each bra cup turned baseball.

Completing the theme, the bra is trimmed with a real eagle's feather, underwear maker Triumph said.

The single commemorative bra will be sold by an internet auction closing Wednesday, a day ahead of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles' home debut in the northern city of Sendai.

"We would like the lucky individual who bids down this single set edition ... to wear the bra and support the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles at their opening game in Sendai," a Triumph statement said.

Bidding began Friday with a symbolic offer of 88 yen, the uniform number of the Golden Eagles' manager. Eighty-eight yen is equal to 83 US cents.

The Golden Eagles were formed after the merger of two money-losing teams in Japanese baseball. The national sport is in crisis due to soaring salaries and in September the first strike by players.

Nippon Professional Baseball chose as the new team's owner Internet shopping site Rakuten, which will join the old boys club of Japanese pro baseball dominated by railway firms, media conglomerates and food companies.

[Publius6961]

No.
Nope.
Never.

Not going there...

[texasflower]

The name of the team is the Eagles.

[TheBigB]

Feather bump! :^)

[Loud Mime]

I hope those seams don't leave marks on the other side....

this brings up a question: What does that bra look like when it gets cold?

[bmwcyle]

That is what Bill Clinton said. I didn't believe him either.

[texasflower]

It says the team name ON the bra. You must be a guy. :-)

[SittinYonder]

The name of the team is the Eagles

How do you know?

[cyborg]

LOL

[texasflower]

It's on the bra and in the article.

[SittinYonder]

It says the team name ON the bra.

LOL ... I didn't notice.

You must be a guy. :-)

Thanks for noticing!

[texasflower]

:-)

[G-dzilla]

Either it's an eagle feather, or a symbol of good ruck.

[tiamat]

Unbelievable.

Well, thanks for sharing anyway..

(I think)

[kahoutek]

In a previous news item, the first effort to adorn clothing with the team's name was summarily rejected by the team.

The article of clothing, a jock strap, was turned down by the team becase the athletic supporter was too small to provide a large enough logo to be able to be read.

The manufacturer's president, Rito Wee Nee, confessed that the company simply sewed two jocks together and came up with the bra.

[hflynn]

It's in the article

The single commemorative bra will be sold by an internet auction closing Wednesday, a day ahead of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles' home debut in the northern city of Sendai.

[martin_fierro]

Why is she holding a feather?

[bmwcyle]

She can't get close to a heat source. She would go up like the Hindenburg.

[KidGlock]

[beyond the sea]

May I throw out the first pitch................ or hold on to it, just for a while?

As Bob Prince used to say............... "Kiss it Goodbye."

Ugh....... those 'curve balls' look like they came from Koufax.

[Piquaboy]

You are just to much. Good one!