In the fall of 2002 I got a phone call from a San Francisco lawyer who asked if I was interested in becoming the player agent for Hideki Matsui, the great Japanese baseball player. Over the next few weeks a Japanese attorney and I corresponded about the ancient verities that were important to Matsui: honor, respect, humility. I promised that, if hired, I would uphold Matsui’s standards and treat him like a member of my family. Toward the end of that November I learned through the Japanese media that Matsui had chosen me to be his agent. During my 32 years in the business, that was the first — and so … Continue reading Arn Tellem