Voter Who Passed on Ichiro for Hall of Fame Still a Mystery

TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he's much more than that in Japan. Back home, he's a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the ...
by Stephen Wade | AP Sports Writer TOPICS: TOKYO — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he's much more than that in Japan. Back home, he's a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei ...
Ichiro debuted in Major League Baseball in 2001 with the Seattle Mariners, the first Japanese position player to span the Pacific and an instant star. Left-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him ...
Ichiro Suzuki is the Japanese Zen master who was so dedicated to baseball that he carried his bats in a moisture-proof case and apologised to their creator when he broke one. His speed and ...
During the gestation period for the place that would become baseball’s sacred shrine, Time Magazine, the New York Times and ...
But no one has ever walked through these doors with the sport-changing, Hall-changing, planet-changing possibilities of Ichiro. As the first player elected from Japan, he enters the Hall as more ...