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Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player to gain entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame — and yet the moment fell narrowly shy of even more history. Suzuki, a no-doubt, first-ballot Hall of Famer ...

The longtime Mariners outfielder will head to Cooperstown in July, but he won't be doing so in unanimous fashion. Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki was elected to the National Baseball ...

From the Seattle Times comes word that from midnight to 6 a.m. on New Year’s Day, Japanese TV ran an Ichiro marathon. But it wasn’t a highlights package per se, it was video of each and every one of ...

When he first arrived in Seattle in 2001, Ichiro wasn’t sure what kind of reception he would get from American baseball fans. Fair to say, the Mariners’ iconic right fielder didn’t expect all this – ...

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