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The smile got a little bigger, the feelings a little deeper, the meaning, the more about Dave Roberts looked around in the room.

After the world championship title of last year, in which Roberts led the Dodgers to the second championship of his decorated term, the experienced manager spent weeks in triumph for weeks. He sprayed champagne into the Bronx. He danced with ice cubes on the day of the parade. He was happy with friends and family who described him in a season that he described as “the most strenest” of his nine years with the Dodgers, but also “the most satisfactory”.

Then he received an invitation that he had never expected.

At the beginning of December, Roberts returned to the place of his birth and traveled to the Japanese city of Naha on the small Pacific island of Okinawa in order to obtain official recognition from the local government of the community.