We speak, of course, of the singular Ichiro Suzuki, the newly minted Hall of Famer ... his 2012 four-hit game against the A's back in his native Japan; his 3,000th MLB hit (a triple) in 2016; his 27 ...

Ichiro Suzuki — transcendent, universal ... Suzuki, who spent 14 of his 19 MLB seasons with the Seattle Mariners, is Japan's first Baseball Hall of Famer. He is, undeniably, a deserving character. Few ...

Suzuki is the first player ever from Japan to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. C.C. Sabathia and Billy Wagner will join Suzuki as part of the 2025 Hall of Fame class. Sabathia, who was in ...

NEW YORK — (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for ... Suzuki came to Major League Baseball from ...

Ichiro Suzuki, the dominant contact hitter whose 19 years in the ... Ichiro racked up 3,089 hits in MLB after already having played nine years in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league. Combining ...

Suzuki's rises above the rest. Not only is he Japan's first Baseball Hall of Famer, but in his first year on the ballot, he has become just the second player in history to be elected unanimously.

Few Americans knew what to expect of Ichiro Suzuki when he first came to the United States in 2001. He had been an otherworldly hitter in Japan, tearing up the NPB with a .353/.421/.522 triple slash ...

Ichiro Suzuki is set to become the first Japanese player to make it to baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Dodgers star ...

Ichiro Suzuki became the second player elected to the Hall of Fame ... Ichiro had 3,089 hits in a 19-year MLB career, in addition to the 1,278 he recorded in Japan’s NPB, for a total of 4,367 hits, ...

Ichiro Suzuki could have been immortalized as a first-ballot Hall ... Combine that with the 1,278 he had in Japan, and Ichiro stands as the career hits leader in professional baseball with 4,367. That ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Ichiro Suzuki, a veritable hits machine on both sides of the ... burst onto the major league scene in 2001 with the Seattle Mariners as the first position player from Japan and ...

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner will join Dick Allen ... After spending nine seasons in Japan to start his professional career, during which he amassed 1,278 hits with a .353 batting ...