His given name Ichiro — ’ichi” means “one” in Japanese — started appearing on the back of his jersey in 1994 with the Orix BlueWave. Suzuki is a very common family name, and manager ...

Repeatedly told in Japan to change it, he declined. His given name Ichiro — ’ichi” means “one” in Japanese — started appearing on the back of his jersey in 1994 with the Orix BlueWave. Suzuki is a ...

Ichiro Suzuki fell one vote short of becoming the second player ever elected into the Hall of Fame unanimously. Whether he deserved that honor is debatable, but his greatness is not. To mark the ...

Everyone had the same question after the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2025 class was unveiled on Tuesday: Who was the lone person who didn’t vote for Ichiro Suzuki? The Japanese superstar more than ...

Ichiro Suzuki could have been immortalized as a first-ballot Hall of Famer nearly a decade ago. He was last a full-time starter in 2012, at 38. He logged his 3,000th hit in 2016, when he was 42.

Ichiro Suzuki is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. That has long been the assumption among baseball fans regarding the Japanese outfielder who played the majority of his 19-year MLB career with the ...

The first time Ichiro Suzuki set foot into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. was nearly a quarter-century ago, back on Nov. 12, 2001. Suzuki, who had already donated a bat from his ...

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 ...