Ichiro Suzuki is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. That has long been the assumption among baseball fans regarding the Japanese outfielder who played the majority of his 19-year MLB career with the ...

Global baseball's hit king Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese-born player ... seasons while expanding the horizons for Japanese players aiming to make the move stateside when some doubted ...

Former Seattle Mariners star Ichiro Suzuki is the first Japanese player to be elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner also were selected Tuesday for enshrinement in ...

Ichiro Suzuki ... playing career, Suzuki had amassed 4,367 hits as a professional, including 3,089 in MLB. Last week Suzuki became the seventh first-ballot inductee into the Japanese Baseball ...