Ichiro Suzuki’s 3,089 hits, 509 stolen bases and 10 Gold Glove Awards tell only part of the story of a player who didn’t appear in a big league game until he was 27 years old. ... Ichiro returned for two games at the start of the 2019 season as the Mariners and the Athletics opened the season in Tokyo. His remarkable career was celebrated ...

4 days ago · When Ichiro arrived in MLB with the Mariners in 2001, it was an inflection point for the sport.\n\n“Baptism by fire,” is how he described it through an interpreter after his Hall election.\n\nIchiro was the 11th player from Japan to join our …

Ichiro Suzuki / ˈ iː tʃ ɪ r oʊ s uː ˈ z uː k i / (鈴木 一朗, Suzuki Ichirō, born 22 October 1973), also known mononymously as Ichiro (イチロー, Ichirō), is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder who played for 28 seasons. He played the first nine years of his career with the Orix BlueWave of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), and the next 12 years with the ...

Jan 20, 2025 · TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he’s much more than that in Japan. Back home, he’s a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the Pacific buoyed the nation as Japan’s economy sputtered through the so-called lost decades of the 1990s and into the 2000s.

Jan 21, 2025 · Ichiro, who rose to global superstardom with the Mariners, was elected in his first year on the ballot, but fell one vote short of becoming the second player voted in unanimously.

Jan 16, 2025 · Ichiro Suzuki, who had a total of 4,367 hits between Japan and the United States, is announced as one of the newest members of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.

Jan 22, 2025 · Former Japanese star Ichiro Suzuki headlined inductees in the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame. He became famous as a Seattle Mariner, and his election comes as Japanese players are more popular than...

Jan 21, 2025 · TOKYO — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he’s much more than that in Japan. Back home, he’s a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now.

Jan 16, 2025 · TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Ichiro Suzuki, who had a total of 4,367 hits between Japan and the United States, was announced as one of the newest members of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame on Thursday.

Jan 20, 2025 · TOKYO — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he’s much more than that in Japan. Back home, he’s a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the Pacific...