However, in the year and a half since that time, Japanese fans have been diligently at work, scouring video clips for any evidence that Matsui’s purported wife actually exists.

So far, they have come up with two photographs, which Japanese websites agree are almost certainly of Matsui’s wife. Have a look and see what you think…

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When we first broke the background story of Matsuzaka and his wife back in 2006, there wasn’t a lot of time to search for pictures, so we just went with what we could find on short notice. Since then, however, we have scoured the internets to find some more photos. Observe what we managed to come up with, after the jump…

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A native of Newton, Mass., and a fan of the Red Sox since childhood, Enza first became famous in 2004 for briefly dating fellow Massachussets native Ben Affleck after they met at a charity bowling event organized by Nomar Garciaparra.

Enza then met and became friends with Youkilis through mutual friend (and then Red Sox pitcher) Lenny DiNardo. The couple was friends for several years before getting engaged in 2007 and finally tying the knot this past offseason.

Before her engagement to Youkilis, Enza worked as a sales manager at several television stations in the Boston area. She now works as the CEO of Youkilis’s charitable foundation, “Hits for Kids.”

Enza’s marriage to Youkilis is her second. After she broke up with Affleck she had a brief, 7-month marriage and divorce with a Boston-area car dealer, which produced a son, Mikey, now aged 5.

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Monday is Hot Baseball Wife Day here at UmpBump, and today’s honoree is Amber Sabathia, the wife of Yankees ace CC Sabathia.  The former Amber Williams was CC’s high school sweetheart when they were both growing up in Vallejo, California. The couple was married in 2003 and now they have three children, son Carsten Charles Sabathia III, and daughters Jaeden Arie and Cyia Cathleen (ie another “CC”).

Amber Sabathia was pressing her husband hard last offseason to sign with the hometown San Francisco Giants, so they would not have to move to another city, and it was rumored that CC only agreed to sign with the Yankees after Brian Cashman had a private sit-down with Amber to convince her that it was possible to raise kids in New York.

In her free time, Amber is pursuing a college degree in history.

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This week former Red Sox outfielder Troy O’Leary’s ex-wife Annette Gray-O’Leary has hit the news in a big way.

Until this past June, Ms. O’Leary, age 39, who has a master’s degree in education, was the assistant principal of Kyrene del Cielo elementary school in … [visit site to read more]

Monday is Hot Baseball Wife Day here at UmpBump, and this weeks honoree is Krista Dumatrait, the wife of Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher and fellow Bakersfield, CA native Phil Dumatrait. The couple still resides in Bakersfield, and has two children: son Maddox and daughter Jaclynn.

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Monday is Hot Baseball Wife Day here at UmpBump, and this week’s honoree is Michelle Burrell, the wife of former Phillies outfielder and current Tampa Bay Rays DH Pat Burrell.

Before marrying Pat, former Michelle Fonseca served a five-year tour of duty in the US Marines. She credits her time in the Marines with developing her love of physical fitness, which recently inspired her to open up a cycling fitness center in Tampa, Florida.

Michelle and Pat got engaged in the spring of 2007 (pictures after the jump) and were married the following offseason, on November 10, 2007, in California.

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If America’s single young women have not been paying close attention, they will be greatly disappointed to know that Orioles right fielder Nick Markakis (or as Umpbumper Sarah Green prefers to pronounce it, “Nick Mmmmmmarkakis”), is no longer on the market, having married his wife Christina this past offseason.

The former Christina Dutko, of Boca Raton, Florida, graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a degree in Education, and worked as an elementary school teacher and professional cycling aerobics traner before moving north to Baltimore to live with Nick and raise their child, son Taylor, who was born on March 11, 2009.

On May 29, Nick and Christina announced the establishment of the “Right Side Foundation,” which will focus on improving the lives of underprivileged children in the state of Maryland.  No word on what will happen to the title of the foundation, a pun on the fact that Nick plays right field, if Nick ever switches positions.

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Monday is Hot Baseball Wife Day here at UmpBump, and this week’s honoree is Leslee Holliday, wife of Oakland A’s outfielder Matt Holliday.

The couple met in 1998, when Matt had just signed his first pro contract out of high school and was still living with his family in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Leslee was a freshman at the University of Oklahoma. The couple has two children, sons Ethan and Jackson.

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Monday is Hot Baseball Wife Day here at UmpBump, and this week’s honoree is Rie Park, the wife of Phillies hurler Chan Ho Park.

Rie grew up in Japan, as a third generation Korean-Japanese (”Rie” is the Japanese spelling of her name. Her Korean name is “Ri-Hye”). Her father, businessman Park Choong-Seo, is the 76th richest man in Japan.

After graduating from prestigious Sophia University in Tokyo, Rie moved to America to study French Cuisine at the Culinary Institute of America, and actually worked for a time as a French chef before meeting Chan Ho.

The couple was introduced to each other by a mutual friend, and spoke several times on the phone before finally meeting in person. “He was really odd,” Rie recalled. “He kept calling me early in the morning for three straight days.” But when she finally met him, “it felt as though I had known him for a long time.”

After less than a year of dating the couple was married in 2005, in a wedding in Seoul that was attended by Chan Ho’s MLB buddies Hee Seop Choi and Jae Weong Seo.

The couple now has two children – a three year old daughter Elynne, born in 2006, and a 9-month-old daughter born last year, whose name does not appear to be known by the internets.

The two seem to be very much in love, with Chan Ho claiming that his wife’s cooking is even better than his mother’s and Rie saying that Chan Ho scores 100 out of 100 on the good husband scale, particularly praising him because he “willingly changes diapers and bathes the babies.”

Rie’s latest project is a Korean cookbook, entitled Rie’s Kitchen, in which she outlines over 160 different recipes she has cooked for Chan Ho during their marriage. All proceeds are being donated to charity.

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