It’s tempting to say Ichiro Suzuki, with his detached sense of cool ... Japanese impact players in the bigs were entirely pitchers, with Hideo Nomo shooting to superstardom a few years earlier.

TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball ... Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country's confidence in a period of ...

Ichiro Suzuki was one of the faces of baseball during the 2000s after making the jump from the Japanese League to join the ...

Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball’s all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) — more even than Pete Rose’s 4,256. He broke George Sisler’s single ...

Players are elected to the Hall of Fame provided they are named on at least 75% of ballots cast by eligible voting members of the BBWAA. With 394 ballots submitted in the 2025 election, candidates ...

A once-in-a-generation player who earned the admiration of baseball fans in North America -- the birthplace of the sport -- has now received the highe ...

Ichiro Suzuki has been inducted into the halls of ... Although players like Hideo Nomo and Hideki Matsui have been considered for the American Hall of Fame, Ichiro is the first Asian-born player ...

RELATED | Ichiro Suzuki elected to Baseball Hall of Fame ... Left-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country's confidence in a period ...

A Hall of Fame cover athlete: Ichiro Suzuki. Ichiro’s card has not ... Imagine pitching a game during Hideo Nomo’s rookie season with his funky windup. Or playing as Hideki Matsui during ...