Hot Baseball Wife: Misaki Iwamura
Monday is Hot Baseball Wife Day here at UmpBump, and this week’s honoree is Misaki Iwamura, the wife of Rays second baseman Akinori Iwamura.
Born in a small fishing village near the town of Shimonoseki in western Japan, Misaki was working as an “Office Lady” when Akinori saw her while out at an event hosted by mutal friends.
“It was love at first sight,” confides Akinori, who then asked his friends to invite her out again so he could ask her out on a date.
Akinori did his best to conceal that he was a famous baseball player, and Misaki did not find out who he was until she mentioned to her baseball-loving brothers that she had been asked out by some guy named “Akinori Iwamura.” They told her she should accept right away, but she played hard to get, making Akinori ask her out numerous times before she finally said yes.
The couple was married in 2005, and had a son, Taiki, in 2007. They live in St. Petersburg, Florida.
More pictures after the jump…
May 14th, 2009 at 12:01 am
maybe it’s just the haircut but, Akinori Iwamura has a weird-shaped head. I know he’s been cleated a lot at 2nd but that shouldn’t cause his head to look all weird like that.
and, I love Misaki’s black dress.
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