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 ...

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 ...

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 ...