  Want to get discounts on tickets
to Swallows games? Meet players up close? Get free
prizes? Participate in all the Fan Appreciation Day
events with your favorite Yakult players? Whip out your Yakult
Swallows Fan Club Members Card the next time someone
accuses you of being a nobody?Yes? Then you might want to check
out the Swallows fan club.
In
truth, fan club membership is pretty low key. No meetings
or any other geeky activities. All you have to do is send
in 5,000 yen (about $40 US dollars), and you can become
an anonymous member. Children only have to pay 3,500 yen.
In return, you'll get about 6,000 yen worth of free
outfield unreserved tickets (for four games), a plastic
tarp with the Swallows logo, a baseball cap, members card
and a 1998 Swallows program. Instead of the tarp, kids get a
nylon waist pack. Members also receive a quarterly
newsletter. If you plan on attending four or more games a
year, you'll save money by becoming a member.
Especially
for kids, membership means that you can participate in
the Fan Appreciation Day activities with the
team's top players. If you and your family plan on
staying in Japan for a year or more, your kids might
enjoy an opportunity like this.
To
find out more about becoming a member, call (03)
3574-8932 (in Japanese), visit the official Yakult Swallows official home page (Japanese), or write (in Japanese)
to the address below.
Yakult
Swallows Rooters Club
1-1-19
Higashi Shimbashi
Minato-ku,
Tokyo 105-8660 (Japan)
If
you prefer, you can sign up for the fan club near Jingu
Stadium's gate six (at the front of the ballpark) between
4:00 and 8:00 PM on any game day. But do it soon because
there's a limited membership and most of the free tickets
are available only for games before the all-star break
(in late-July).
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