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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, Seattle Mariners legend Ichiro Suzukibecame the newest member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Ichiro was voted into Cooperstown in his first year of eligibility ...

Chuck Solomon/Sports Illustrated Ichiro Suzuki liked to say he enjoyed hitting leadoff because the batter’s box was still pristine at first pitch. The imagery, like the manicured nature of the ...

In addition to CC Sabathia getting the call to Cooperstown in his first year of eligibility, legendary Japanese outfielder Ichiro Suzuki will also be a first-ballot inductee. While primarily ...

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 ...