Ichiro was a technician who made an art of hitting the ball softly. With Ichiro’s speed and running start style, any infielder that needed to move more than two steps to field one of his ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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, 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 ...