As a boy, Ichiro owned Transformers toys and watched Ultraman cartoons. He’d ridden his bike to school and once been hit by a car. He’d learned to do math on an abacus. Mostly, though ...

This was visit No. 8, on a frosty, 14-degree Thursday morning in January. This time, Ichiro Suzuki was walking through these doors, of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, as one of the legends.

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 ...

TOKYO — 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 ...

It was all but guaranteed that Ichiro Suzuki would be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame Tuesday night. The only question was whether his election would be unanimous. He came up one vote shy ...

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he is much more than that at home in Japan TOKYO -- Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he's much more than that in Japan. Back home, he's a ...

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 ...

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 ...

When he first arrived in Seattle in 2001, Ichiro wasn’t sure what kind of reception he would get from American baseball fans. Fair to say, the iconic Mariners right fielder didn’t expect all ...

It was no surprise to learn Tuesday that Ichiro Suzuki was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year on the ballot. It was, however, a surprise that he fell one vote short of being a ...

Ichiro Suzuki fell just one vote short of getting 100 percent support for induction into Hall of Fame. AFP via Getty Images It is a classy class. It was already a classy class because Dave Parker ...

An image of Ichiro Suzuki at a press conference that announced the retirement of his #51 jersey on the evening of January 21, 2025. (KOMO News) TOPICS: SEATTLE — Hours after he narrowly missed ...