Back home, he's a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the Pacific buoyed the nation as Japan's economy sputtered through the so-called lost decades of ...

Or facing Mike Trout in the bottom of the ninth in the World Baseball Classic as you play as Shohei Ohtani. The program would win Oscars. Of course, the ultimate prize would be a 99-rated Ichiro ...

In 2006, Ichiro led Japan to the inaugural World Baseball Classic title under manager Sadaharu Oh, whose 868 career home runs are the most in Japanese baseball. "He has firm beliefs," said Oh ...

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 Suzuki made his name in Japan and his mark in Seattle. Now, the 51-year old finds a new home: Cooperstown. The longtime Mariners supernova - who also played for the Yankees and Marlins ...

Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball’s all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) — more even than Pete Rose's 4,256. He broke George Sisler ...