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The Chicago Cubs introduce Japanese baseball player Kosuke Fukudome (right) seated with interpreter Matt Hidaka (left) at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, December 19, 2007. (Photo by Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune/MCT/Sipa USA
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