Newly elected Baseball Hall of Fame member Ichiro Suzuki will be throwing out the ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day for ...

With total respect, I didn’t know if he knew any English. So I looked over, and, in my imitation of what I heard in Japan, I said, “Ichiro, nice batting.” And he looks at me and goes ...

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Ichiro grew to be hip in the majors, which fit the nation’s branding as “Cool Japan.” On the way, he bumped into pressure in Japan to conform, expressed in the saying “deru kugi wa utareru.” Roughly ...

It was Ichiro at his purest. The one-of-a-kind right fielder, now the first Japanese player headed to Cooperstown, was an athlet ...

Ichiro debuted in Major League Baseball in 2001 ... expressed in the saying “deru kugi wa utareru.” Roughly in English: “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” ...