Ichiro Suzuki becomes first Japanese player to make Hall of Fame. Shohei Ohtani on track to be next
Ichiro Suzuki has become the first Japanese player to make it to baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is likely to be the next.
Ichiro Suzuki is about to get his Hall of Fame moment. For Japan, he’s more than just a baseball star
Ichiro debuted in Major League Baseball in 2001 with the Seattle Mariners, the first Japanese position player to span the Pacific and an instant star. Left-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country’s confidence in a period of national malaise.
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.
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, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner
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,
Ichiro Suzuki's Hall of Fame legacy
Alden Gonzalez narrates Ichiro Suzuki's Hall of Fame career and its lasting impact on 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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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 ...
Dodgers win Rōki Sasaki sweepstakes, cementing status as preferred destination for NPB stars
The Dodgers cemented their status as the preferred MLB destination for NPB stars and transformed their rotation into a Mount Rushmore of Japanese pitching luminaries by winning the Rōki Sasaki ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...