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 ...
Ichiro Suzuki could become the first Japanese player in baseball’s Hall of Fame, and CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner and Carlos Beltrán also could be elected when results of the writers’ voting are ...
"Nearly 1,000 Japanese came from San Francisco by special train to watch," said Shin Hashido, one of the Waseda University ballplayers and a future member of Japan's baseball Hall of Fame. "Americans ...
There was something in Ichiro for every ‘yakyu' fan Ichiro started playing baseball at age 7 on a Little League team near Nagoya in central Japan. Sure, baseball is baseball, but the culture ...
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 ...
TEMPE – The eighth annual DREAM Series is in full swing in the Arizona desert! DREAM Series is Major League Baseball and USA Baseball’s joint initiative held over Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.