Tokyo-based author Robert Whiting, who wrote the book "The Meaning of Ichiro", told AFP that the left-handed batter's speed and technique "changed the way that people looked at baseball". "Major ...

Nomo had a similar effect when he debuted with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995. Ichiro topped that interest level, wrote Robert Whiting in his book “The Samurai Way of Baseball.” “Ichiro was the first ...

Ichiro's bats are 33.5 inches long and weigh ... Hopefully the players will think of the people who made the equipment." The book, "The Natural," ends somewhat differently than the movie.

Before Ichiro came to America, Whiting assumed he was finished writing about batting averages and stolen bases. An American author based in Tokyo, Whiting had written three books about Japanese ...

There's more -- enough to, without exaggeration, fill a 192-page book. All these years on and after Ichiro authored so many moments and the prevailing greatness that landed him in the Baseball ...

Ichiro topped that interest level, wrote Robert Whiting in his book “The Samurai Way of Baseball.” “Ichiro was the first to appear front and center ever single day – a slender Japanese ...

Ichiro topped that interest level, wrote Robert Whiting in his book “The Samurai Way of Baseball.” “Ichiro was the first to appear front and center ever single day — a slender Japanese ...