1938 — Four days after pitching a no-hitter against the Boston Braves, Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds pitched his ...

1905 — Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants pitched his second no-hit game, beating the Chicago Cubs and Mordecai Brown 1-0. Mathewson and Brown matched no-hitters for eight innings. The Giants ...

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Although he is a first-year pitcher in Major League Baseball, he's not a rookie in a traditional sense.The 35-year-old ...

Shigeo Nagashima, who was known in Japan as “Mr. Pro Baseball" and had both a lengthy playing and managerial career in NPB, ...

He was famous in a period before Japanese players like Ichiro Suzuki and Shohei Ohtani began to star in Major League Baseball. Yoshimasa Hayashi, Japan's chief cabinet secretary, said Nagashima "gave ...

NEW YORK — Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese ... He’s perhaps the best contact hitter ever, with 1,278 hits in Nippon Professional Baseball and 3,089 in MLB, including a season-record ...

Ichiro Suzuki, the Japane­se former professional base­ball outfielder, boasts an impressive­ 28-season career. His journe­y began with the Orix Blue Wave­ of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB ...

The Mariners will host "Ichiro Suzuki Hall of Fame Weekend" during ... nine-year stint with the Orix BlueWave of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball from 1992-2000. In his first season in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Used to leading off, Ichiro Suzuki got antsy when ... with 1,278 hits in Nippon Professional Baseball and 3,089 in MLB, including a season-record 262 in 2004.

Ichiro Suzuki, in a sense ... player to make the jump to Major League Baseball from Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. He was 27 when he left the Orix Blue Wave for the Seattle Mariners.

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese-born ... Before that, he collected 1,278 hits in the Nippon Professional Baseball league in Japan, giving him more overall hits (4,367) than Pete Rose ...