Ichiro Suzuki was one of the faces of baseball during the 2000s after making the jump from the Japanese League to join the ...
Players are elected to the Hall of Fame provided they are named on at least 75% of ballots cast by eligible voting members of ...
Ichiro Suzuki is a first-ballot Hall of Famer ... Nippon Professional Baseball before joining MLB and the Mariners in 2001.
TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball ... the first Japanese position player to span the Pacific and an instant star. Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came ...
Yankees legend Hideki Matsui played seven seasons for the Yankees. It wasn’t until his final one, in 2009, with the addition ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Beloved in Japan and in the US, Ichiro Suzuki now has a permanent ... While pitchers, including Hideo Nomo, had already played in the US, Suzuki made seismic waves as the first Japanese position ...