The New York Times23d
Fourth outfielder? Slap hitter? Ichiro got to Cooperstown by silencing early skeptics
Early in Spring Training, Ichiro hit almost everything ... In April of 2001, that meant predicting Ichiro’s rookie season. Conventional wisdom said that Japanese baseball was comparable to ...
CBSSports.com23d
Appreciating the singular Ichiro Suzuki, who fell a single vote shy of unanimous Hall of Fame induction
Out in right field, the rookie charged ... was able to work out with the Mariners during spring training in 1999. While the story goes that Ichiro's cameo left Piniella unimpressed, it laid ...
Seattle Mariners Legend Ichiro Suzuki to Throw First Pitch on Opening Day
National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee will kick off the season for the team he spent most of his career with.
Ichiro, Sabathia, Wagner inducted to Baseball Hall of Fame
An all-time international baseball icon will get his day in the Cooperstown sun this July, alongside pitchers CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.
ESPN21d
Ichiro Suzuki wants to have drink with Hall of Fame holdout
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Ichiro Suzuki wants to raise a glass ... "Pretty quick, like two or three days into spring training, me and Andy [Pettitte] are running in the outfield, I get a chance to ...
Ichiro Suzuki wants to have a drink with writer who left him off Hall of Fame ballot
BBWAA secretary-treasurer Jack O’Connell recalled Suzuki was at the Hall in 2001 when he called to inform the Seattle star he had been voted AL Rookie of the Year. Suzuki received 27 of 28 first-place ...