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The five newcomers, including Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 27, 2025, in Cooperstown, New York.
Ichiro started playing baseball at age 7 on a Little League team near Nagoya in central Japan. Sure, baseball is baseball, but the culture around the game — known as “yakyu” (field ball) — is special.
Seattle Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki earned election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown by earning a ...
Even six years into retirement, Ichiro Suzuki retains his burning passion for baseball, training hard every day so he can still drive the ball over the wall in batting practice while throwing a ...
Admittedly, the last few days have been a whirlwind and it's taken me some time to get my thoughts in order for this column.
They also learned Japanese swear words. Ichiro had a healthy sense of humor that way. “Nice shirt,’’ he’d say to Marlins in English in greeting. Of course, he showed up his first day that first ...
The Hall of Fame introduced the newest members of its Class of 2025 -- Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner \-\- live ...
and came up through what is often described as a regimented baseball-training system that some link to the martial arts and even samurai history. Ichiro grew to be hip in the majors, which fit the ...
True or not, it likely traces back to this repartee between Ichiro and his first manager, Lou Piniella, during his very first spring training. ESPN's Tommy Tomlinson wrote: "Pull the ball ...