Ichiro led the American League with a .350 batting average, while leading the majors with 56 stolen bases, 242 hits, 692 at-bats, and 738 plate appearances.

The Hall is calling. Ichiro, the iconic and beloved Mariners right fielder, will be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame during an induction ceremony in Cooperstown, N.Y., on Sunday.

Ichiro Suzuki was named to the Baseball Hall of Fame Tuesday afternoon, but the news was overshadowed by the voting process. He received 99.7% of votes and came up just one vote shy of being the ...

Ichiro is set to be the first Japanese-born player in the Hall of Fame. AP He would join Rivera, who did it when he made the Hall of Fame in 2019 in his first year on the ballot.

Ichiro never did get to 200 hits again in Japan, but he made another run at .400. He did so in 2000, at the point at which it was well known that he was ready to depart for MLB.

4. Be detailed. Respect your craft Ichiro always displayed sincere reverence for his equipment. His glove always sat in the same spot. His bats were sorted, organized, polished and leaned just so.

Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Ichiro Suzuki is seen on a tour prior to a news conference Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Cooperstown, N.Y. AP The comment elicited chuckles from Suzuki’s fellow ...

A total of 394 voters submitted their ballots. Of those, 321 were made public Tuesday. But the Ichiro dissenter's ballot wasn't one of them.

Ichiro Suzuki could have been immortalized as a first-ballot Hall of Famer nearly a decade ago. He was last a full-time starter in 2012, at 38. He logged his 3,000th hit in 2016, when he was 42.

Ichiro, 50, trekked to the village in upstate New York, home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, seven times between 2001 and 2016. He has toured the museum more than any active or recently ...