Godzilla, as Matsui is known there, towers above Ichiro Suzuki, another homegrown star who sought fame and fortune in the United States and found it.

You put together this splendid team, brimming with homegrown stars and smart acquisitions, and nurtured by a calm, street-smart city native.

After marketing itself on the talents of American players, the league saw some of its homegrown stars depart for more prominent leagues in Europe.

And it has a system of homegrown stars who are becoming stars here, too, the biggest of whom can sell hundreds of thousands of records.

Did McGwire forget that Our Game happens to be played now by several Japanese and packs of Latin Americans, and those countries relish seeing their homegrown stars?

The homegrown star scored 11 goals in 2009.

Every Grand Slam struts its homegrown stars and the favored global champions on show courts, in preferred time slots.

The TWA was unique for its time because they regularly booked big-name talent to work with their homegrown stars.

The US market place is suffering from a dearth of natural homegrown stars.

Then the Red Sox allowed their homegrown star to move on to Toronto, where he did not win a World Series, either.