Newly inducted Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki spoke Friday of his excitement about Major League Baseball staging its season-opening series at Tokyo Dome on March 18-19 and returning to Japan for the ...

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 ...

Ichiro Suzuki could become the first Japanese player in baseball’s Hall of Fame, and CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner and Carlos Beltrán also could be elected when results of the writers’ voting are ...

TOKYO — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he’s much more than that in Japan. Back home, he’s a wellspring ... Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball’s all-time leader in ...

Now, Ichiro Suzuki's impact on baseball ... after nine seasons in Japan's major leagues, represented a significant moment in the globalization of baseball. Since then, the World Baseball Classic ...

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2025. The final ...

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner ...

Ichiro Suzuki has made even more history ... Suzuki's perhaps the best contact hitter in baseball history, with 1,278 hits in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball and 3,089 in MLB. His combined total ...

by Stephen Wade | AP Sports Writer TOPICS: TOKYO — Ichiro Suzuki ... 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 ...