Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he is much more than that at home in Japan
Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he is much more than that at home in Japan. Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride — like Shohei Ohtani now —
Ichiro Suzuki to be first Japanese player to make Hall of Fame. Shohei Ohtani on track to be second
Suzuki spent nine seasons with Orix in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball before joining MLB and the Mariners in 2001. While Japanese pitcher Hideo Nomo was a star for the Dodgers in the 1990s, Suzuki was the first Japanese position player to enjoy that level of success in the majors.
For Japan, Ichiro Suzuki is more than just a baseball star
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.
Ichiro is about to get Hall of Fame moment
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.
2025 Baseball Hall of Fame inductees include Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner
Sports' Gabe Lacques explains how Suzuki, Sabathia and Wagner were elected to the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame class.
Ichiro Is Set to Become Japan's First Hall of Famer. Here's Who Might Join Him in Cooperstown
Ichiro Suzuki could join Mariano Rivera as the only unanimous picks for baseball’s Hall of Fame and CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner and Carlos Beltrán also could be elected when results of the writers’ voti
Mariners to retire Ichiro Suzuki's number after Baseball Hall of Fame election: 'A trailblazer'
On the same day that Ichiro Suzuki learned that he'd been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Seattle Mariners announced that they'll retire his No. 51 during the upcoming season: Ichiro's number will be officially honored in a ceremony prior to the Mariners' game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday,
Baseball world reacts to Ichiro Suzuki's near-unanimous Hall of Fame selection
Ichiro Suzuki has been named to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the possible vote. Here are the best reactions from around the internet.
Ichiro Suzuki's Hall of Fame legacy
Alden Gonzalez narrates Ichiro Suzuki's Hall of Fame career and its lasting impact on baseball.
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Shohei Ohtani and Japan: It’s much more than just baseball
And as he enthused about the sensation that is Shohei Ohtani, baseball fan Hotaru Shiromizo ... that of players like Ichiro Suzuki and Hideo Nomo, who came before him. One of them could hit ...
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Shohei Ohtani is The Sporting News Male Athlete of the Year
Who, hard as it may be to believe, is being left behind by Shohei Ohtani ... I’ve had the privilege of capturing early images of Hideo Nomo as an amateur, as well as Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki ...
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Ohtani: How 'Shotime' became Japan's biggest baseball export
Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani has made history by signing a ... including Ichiro Suzuki, Hideo Nomo, Hideki Matsui, Yu Darvish and Masahiro Tanaka. In addition to Ohtani's baseball ...
Dylan Hernández: By joining Dodgers, Roki Sasaki prioritizes development over being a team's top star
By picking the Dodgers over the Padres, Sasaki has deprived baseball of regular showdowns with Ohtani, who like Sasaki is from Japan's Iwate prefecture. With the Dodgers, he always will be an ...
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto Joins Dodgers In Record 12-Year $325 Million Deal
But they hope to get results even better than received from their previous Japanese imports, including Hideo Nomo, Kenta Maeda, Hiroki Kuroda, and Kaz Ishii. Two-way star Shohei Ohtani will be ...
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Does Shotaro Morii Have Potential To Be The Next Shohei Ohtani?
The Las Vegas Athletics may have found their potential franchise player in Japan after signing 18-year-old Shotaro Morii on ...