Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him ... 1994 with the Orix BlueWave. Suzuki is a very common family name, and manager Akira Ohgi wanted to single out Ichiro for attention.

Ichiro Suzuki was one of the faces of baseball during the 2000s after making the jump from the Japanese League to join the ...

Ichiro Suzuki is a first-ballot Hall of Famer ... Nippon Professional Baseball before joining MLB and the Mariners in 2001. While Japanese pitcher Hideo Nomo was a star for the Dodgers in the 1990s, ...

During the gestation period for the place that would become baseball’s sacred shrine, Time Magazine, the New York Times and ...

Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki (51 ... 6/12/1993 At a countryside Kansai Derby game in Nagaoka, Buffaloes ace Hideo Nomo is taking a shutout into the 8th inning Then a 19 year ...

RELATED | Ichiro Suzuki elected to Baseball Hall of Fame ... Left-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country's confidence in a period ...

It’s tempting to say Ichiro Suzuki, with his detached sense of cool ... Japanese impact players in the bigs were entirely pitchers, with Hideo Nomo shooting to superstardom a few years earlier.

TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball ... the first Japanese position player to span the Pacific and an instant star. Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came ...

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball ... Left-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country's confidence in a period of national malaise.

TOKYO – Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball ... Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country's confidence in a period of national ...