Ralph Bryant is 58 years old and hasn't played top-level baseball since his final season with the Kintetsu Buffaloes in 1995.
But on Thursday morning, he was wearing a baseball glove and needed to call on his old reflexes again to keep up with an energetic group of elementary-aged children who wanted to play catch with an NPB great.
Bryant, who hit 259 home runs in eight seasons in Japan, held a baseball clinic for children on Thursday at Tokyo City University Elementary School in the capital's Setagaya Ward.