Elderly people in Japan love Ohtani,” Tokyo resident Tatsuo Shinke said. “It’s my mother. And all my mother’s friends."

Fans of Major League Baseball slugger Shohei Ohtani queued up at a pop-up store in Tokyo on Friday to get their hands on merchandise featuring their national hero ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers' World Series clash with the New York Yankees.

The New York Yankees are taking on more than the Los Angeles Dodgers in truly a World Series against billion-dollar stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of Japan.