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 ...

Ichiro developed his unique swing very early, lifting his right leg and almost running to first base before hitting the ball. Repeatedly told in Japan to change it, he declined. His given name Ichiro ...

The singular BBWAA voter who snubbed Ichiro Suzuki for the Hall of Fame is still at large, and is likely to remain so after ...

Everyone knew about Ichiro. While we were in Japan, every time an American player got a base hit, you’d hear the term, “Nice batting,” in a Japanese accent over the speaker system.

Ichiro will be the first Japanese player enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame during the induction ceremony on July 27 in ...

1. Ichiro breaks George Sisler’s 84-year-old season hits record In 1920, George Sisler had 257 hits, a record that for decades seemed as safe as Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak.

But when he made his debut, Ichiro was more a curiosity than a shoo-in for Cooperstown. He’d won seven straight batting titles in Japan, but he was small with unusual mechanics, and his tendency ...

There was no surprise when it was announced that Ichiro Suzuki would enter the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of ...

In other words, what Ichiro keeps in his humidors are even more precious than a case of Cohiba Esplendido cigars freshly smuggled out of Havana. You win eight consecutive batting titles and then ...

Ichiro developed his unique swing very early, lifting his right leg and almost running to first base before hitting the ball. Repeatedly told in Japan to change it, he declined. His given name ...

Ichiro was the first Japanese position player to appear in an MLB game, and he will be the first Japanese player enshrined in ...

It’s hard enough picking the top 10 moments of Ichiro’s brilliant baseball career, much less ranking them in order. Ask 10 people, and you would likely get 10 different answers. So before ...