The fictional Roy Hobbs carved Wonderboy from a tree split by lightning and carried the bat in a bassoon case. And then there's Ichiro. He keeps his bats in a humidor. Two humidors, actually.

We speak, of course, of the singular Ichiro Suzuki, the newly minted Hall of Famer ... The bottom arm locks tetanus tight. The bat digs for the roots, scatters spadefuls As though to bury ...

Ramos further recalled some of the videos that showed Ichiro Suzuki throwing the ball and knocking the baseball bats down with his ... Spend $49Million for Korean Golden Glover to Counter Dodgers ...

Ichiro began his MLB odyssey in 2001 with the Mariners, already a seasoned professional at the age of 27, and quickly became one of the game’s biggest stars with the Mariners.

Chuck Solomon/Sports Illustrated Ichiro Suzuki liked to say he enjoyed hitting ... the pitcher in his own unique way before every at-bat. / Robert Beck/Sports Illustrated Ichiro was a technician ...

To no one's surprise, Ichiro Suzuki is a Baseball Hall of Famer ... single-season hits record-holder and 10-time Golden Glove winner was tapped for the Hall of Fame earlier this month after ...

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.

It’s tempting to say Ichiro ... can bat around, as a matter of course, the probability that he gets in, and perhaps more germanely compare how he stacks up to previous honorees. Yet Suzuki ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki wants to ... at the time the longest home run of Suzuki’s big league career. “Come back around his next at-bat, throw it to him again, first pitch ...