[Westheim]

You know we had Daniel Hall Bobblehead & Appreciation Day, and Neil Reece Bobblehead & Appreciation Day. Of course we also tried to put a Kisho Saito Bobblehead & Appreciation Day together. Well, we have the bobbleheads, 15,000, stored away in a warehouse. We also have the appreciation. Unfortunately we don't have Saito.

After voiding his 2000 contract and retiring, he boarded a plane to Japan, and hasn't been seen since. Maud has been making phone calls intermittently for years, and she's been close to contacting him. Well, not actually. But she has spoken to a man from Koriyama, whose brother knows a merchant in horticulture materials and tools two towns over, who sells akadama and sometimes grooming tools to a man in the 40s two or three times a year, and that man is always wearing an unbranded brown baseball cap and looks strikingly like this (see below):

She can't find out where he lives, however, but he does not seem to own a phone.

If I could just remember the name and phone number of Kisho's sword sharpener that came over to Portland regularly whenever the team kept blowing his wins...!