Watch: Ken Griffey Jr welcomes Ichiro to National Baseball Hall of Fame
Ken Griffey Jr. played on the same Seattle team as Ichiro in 2009 and 2010, near the end of Junior's playing career.
Ichiro is about to get Hall of Fame moment
Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he’s much more than that in Japan. Back home, he’s a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the Pacific buoyed the nation as Japan’s economy sputtered through the so-called lost decades of the 1990s and into the 2000s.
Ichiro about to get Hall of Fame moment. For Japan, he's more than a baseball star
Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball’s all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) — more even than Pete Rose's 4,256. He broke George Sisler’s single-season hits mark of 257 in 2004. The new mark is 262.
Baseball world reacts to Ichiro Suzuki's near-unanimous Hall of Fame selection
Ichiro Suzuki has been named to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the possible vote. Here are the best reactions from around the internet.
Ichiro, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner voted into baseball Hall of Fame
The Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025 will be honored in the annual induction ceremony July 27 in Cooperstown, New York.
Ichiro Is Set to Become Japan's First Hall of Famer. Here's Who Might Join Him in Cooperstown
Ichiro Suzuki could join Mariano Rivera as the only unanimous picks for baseball’s Hall of Fame and CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner and Carlos Beltrán also could be elected when results of the writers’ voti
Why a unanimous Hall of Fame vote for Ichiro isn’t what matters most
Ichiro had more hits than anyone, while serving as a powerful precedent for Japanese players. That overshadows whether his Hall of Fame election was unanimous.
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Nomo's errant pitch creates an international stir
Ichiro Suzuki, on getting drilled by Hideo Nomo in the fifth inning In Japan ... While Lampkin imagined blood running through the streets of Tokyo, he and the other players were nonchalant ...
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This Day In Dodgers History: Hideo Nomo & Fred McGriff Signed
The Los Angeles Dodgers have a rich history of international signings, which Hideo Nomo is part of as the first Japanese-born player in Major League Baseball. Nomo was originally signed by the ...
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Ohtani: How 'Shotime' became Japan's biggest baseball export
And his global fame has already surpassed that of other Japanese players who moved to the US before him, including Ichiro Suzuki, Hideo Nomo, Hideki Matsui, Yu Darvish and Masahiro Tanaka.