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 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.

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 ...

Baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki isn't overlooking the fact a single voter prevented him from becoming the second unanimous Hall of Fame inductee in the sport's history. Suzuki, who was inducted ...

Beloved in Japan and in the US, Ichiro Suzuki now has a permanent home in Cooperstown, New York. Suzuki, 51, cements himself in baseball lore, becoming the first Japanese player to be elected to ...

Ichiro Suzuki, in a sense, is coming home. Cooperstown has been like Suzuki’s second home since he came to the United States from his native Japan in 2001 to play in the major leagues.

For Ichiro Suzuki, it isn't about the records, or the achievements, he says. It's not that the Seattle Mariners great doesn't have them — in fact, there were many in his star-studded career ...

The 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame class will include Ichiro Suzuki. Rightfully so, of course, and it's always nice to have at least one player in a class where there just doesn't need to be much ...