Getting your player ready...
Hollywood star Tom Hanks was in a league of his own Friday at a Japanese professional baseball game. Hanks, who is in Tokyo with director Ron Howard to promote their film “Angels & Demons,” threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a game between the Yomiuri Giants and the Chunichi Dragons at Tokyo Dome. Hanks threw a pitch that bounced several feet in front of home plate before skidding past a diving Howard behind the plate. “Tons of practice and I bounced it in the dirt. I’m humiliated,” Hanks said. “I went from the rush of being in the sacred spot to the humiliation of being mortal.”
