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The five newcomers, including Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 27, 2025, in Cooperstown, New York.

Ichiro started playing baseball at age 7 on a Little League team near Nagoya in central Japan. Sure, baseball is baseball, but the culture around the game — known as “yakyu” (field ball) — is special.

Seattle Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki earned election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown by earning a ...

He rarely saw his friends. Ichiro told the author Robert Whiting that training sessions with his father, Nobuyuki, were so intense they “bordered on child abuse.” From that crucible emerged a ...

Even six years into retirement, Ichiro Suzuki retains his burning passion for baseball, training hard every day so he can still drive the ball over the wall in batting practice while throwing a ...

Admittedly, the last few days have been a whirlwind and it's taken me some time to get my thoughts in order for this column.

Ichiro was going to do things his way ... Drayer details the list of non-roster invitees for the team's MLB spring training, the return of a former player as a coach, and much more.

They also learned Japanese swear words. Ichiro had a healthy sense of humor that way. “Nice shirt,’’ he’d say to Marlins in English in greeting. Of course, he showed up his first day that first ...

and came up through what is often described as a regimented baseball-training system that some link to the martial arts and even samurai history. Ichiro grew to be hip in the majors, which fit the ...