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 ...