Ichiro Suzuki was one of the faces of baseball during the 2000s after making the jump from the Japanese League to join the ...

It’s tempting to say Ichiro Suzuki, with his detached sense of cool ... Japanese impact players in the bigs were entirely pitchers, with Hideo Nomo shooting to superstardom a few years earlier.

LOS ANGELES — Ichiro Suzuki is a first-ballot Hall of Famer ... While Japanese pitcher Hideo Nomo was a star for the Dodgers in the 1990s, Suzuki was the first Japanese position player to ...

TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball ... Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country's confidence in a period of ...

On April 2, 2001, Bret Boone jogged to second base for a chilly Opening Day in Seattle. The roof at Safeco Field was open, the upstart Oakland Athletics were in town, and ESPN2 had the national ...

Players are elected to the Hall of Fame provided they are named on at least 75% of ballots cast by eligible voting members of ...

Seattle Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki is set to earn election into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. This ...

Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball’s all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) — more even than Pete Rose’s 4,256. He broke George Sisler’s single ...

Ichiro Suzuki has been inducted into the halls of ... Although players like Hideo Nomo and Hideki Matsui have been considered for the American Hall of Fame, Ichiro is the first Asian-born player ...