Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he's much more than that in Japan. “He healed the wounds in Japan’s national psyche, ...
Ichiro Suzuki has become the first Japanese player to make it to baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Dodgers star Shohei ...
Players are elected to the Hall of Fame provided they are named on at least 75% of ballots cast by eligible voting members of ...
New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera is still the only player ... While pitchers, including Hideo Nomo, had already played in the US, Suzuki made seismic waves as the first Japanese position ...
Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country’s confidence in a period of national malaise. Tsutsui termed Ichiro a “great cultural ...