If Ichiro Suzuki is elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday -- which he could potentially do as the first position player with a unanimous vote -- it’s widely expected that when ...

When Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese-born player to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he became the ...

As a Mariners icon gets his Cooperstown call, teammates and opponents share what makes him 100% Hall of Fame worthy.

On the same day that Ichiro Suzuki learned that he'd been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Seattle Mariners ...

Ichiro Suzuki is a first-ballot Hall of Famer ... the Dodgers feature two other Japanese players on their roster in pitchers ...

Leading the way is Japanese sensation Ichiro Suzuki, who was an easy admission ... The left-hander had signed a seven-year, $161 million deal with New York, the most for a pitcher at the time.

Numberless Ichiro signature moments were yet to come ... hitters making the leap -- hitters like Hideki Matsui, Seiya Suzuki, and, yes, Ohtani -- did so with fewer barriers and doubts.

That 2001 season was when Ichiro Suzuki debuted with the Seattle Mariners ... The Mariners had paid $13 million for his posting rights. They then signed him to a three-year, $14 million contract.

Suzuki -- let's just call him Ichiro -- grew up in Japan ... the first Japanese position player to play in the majors when he signed with the Seattle Mariners in 2001 at 27.

Ichiro Suzuki is a first-ballot Hall of Famer ... two other Japanese players in pitchers Yoshinobu Yamamoto and newly signed Roki Sasaki. In 2023, Yamamoto joined Suzuki as two of only three ...