Willie McGee won the National League MVP or the 1985 season, in which he hit just 10 home runs. McGee also batted .353. Vince ...
On April 2, 2001, Bret Boone jogged to second base for a chilly Opening Day in Seattle. The roof at Safeco Field was open, the upstart Oakland Athletics were in town, and ESPN2 had the national ...
Seattle Mariners legend and Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki tries to hold back his tears after his team announced his jersey ...
Ichiro Suzuki joked that he would like to have a chat with the lone baseball writer to leave him off their Baseball Hall of ...
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.
Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he is much more than that at home in Japan. Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride ...
By then, Ichiro had already amassed 1,278 hits and hit .353 in nine seasons with the Orix Blue Wave of the Japan Pacific League, winning seven consecutive batting titles in the process.
"Ichiro's arrival in the United States, after nine seasons in Japan's major leagues, represented a significant moment in the ...