In fact, Ichiro picked up his 3,000th career hit (in the majors) with the Marlins back in 2016. One of the best all-around players in baseball history, Ichiro spent 28 years as a professional player ...

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The former Mariners superstar was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote (named on all but one ballot) ...

But when he made his debut, Ichiro was more a curiosity than a shoo-in for Cooperstown. He’d won seven straight batting titles in Japan, but he was small with unusual mechanics, and his tendency ...

1. Ichiro breaks George Sisler’s 84-year-old season hits record In 1920, George Sisler had 257 hits, a record that for decades seemed as safe as Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak.

Everyone knew about Ichiro. While we were in Japan, every time an American player got a base hit, you’d hear the term, “Nice batting,” in a Japanese accent over the speaker system.

The Seattle Mariners will have several events during the season to honor Ichiro Suzuki being inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 27. Suzuki ...

Our manager was Lou Piniella. Ichiro was hitting foul balls over the third-base dugout and over the third baseman and he would get a lot of his base hits between first and second, short and third ...

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.

Ichiro broke Sisler’s single-season hit record in 2004 with 262, his third season after signing a three-year contract with the Mariners worth $14 million at age 27. By then, Ichiro had already ...

It’s hard enough picking the top 10 moments of Ichiro’s brilliant baseball career, much less ranking them in order. Ask 10 people, and you would likely get 10 different answers. So before ...