Not only did Japan's Shohei Ohtani take the American League by storm in 2018 with his mold-shattering brand of hitting and pitching, his popularity forced the Los Angeles Angels merchandising unit to play catch-up for an entire season."We weren't ready," Eric Ursua, the general manager of Angel Stadium's merchandise store, Legends, said by phone about the preseason preparations to merchandise Ohtani sporting goods."When we started off (after his signing), we only had like three or four Ohtani items...By the end of the season, we had six- or seven-dozen different items. We had no idea we wou…READ FULL ARTICLE
