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 became a Hall of Famer in his native country on Thursday, but the 51-year-old former outfielder was not a unanimous selection. Longtime Japanese baseball reporter Jim Allen ...

Ichiro Suzuki was named to the Baseball Hall of Fame Tuesday afternoon, but the news was overshadowed by the voting process. He received 99.7% of votes and came up just one vote shy of being the ...

Ichiro Suzuki’s first-ballot selection to the Hall of Fame was taken as a fait accompli by everyone - except maybe the man himself. “It was all set up,” he explained through longtime ...

But a man draped in a black-and-white jacket and Mizuno Sportstyle RB87 trainers. Ichiro Suzuki strolled into the ballpark like he never left, exuding the same quiet confidence that made him a legend.

However, Ichiro Suzuki is not most people, and when the Mariners asked the soon-to-be enshrined Hall of Famer to throw out the first pitch on Opening Day, he was ready to show folks that he's ...