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Japan, Ichiro Suzuki and Hall of Fame

Ichiro is about to get his Hall of Fame moment. For Japan, he's more than just a baseball star

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he's much more than that in Japan. Back home, he's a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the Pacific buoyed the nation as Japan's economy sputtered through the so-called lost decades of the 1990s and into the 2000s.

The Herald Bulletin · 3d

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he is much more than that at home in Japan

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he is much more than that at home in Japan. Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride — like Shohei Ohtani now —

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Ichiro Suzuki to be first Japanese player to make Hall of Fame. Shohei Ohtani on track to be second

Suzuki spent nine seasons with Orix in Japan's 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, Suzuki was the first Japanese position player to enjoy that level of success in the majors.

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Meet Roki Sasaki, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ next Japanese superstar

What do you buy for the team that has everything? That is the question that the Los Angeles Dodgers have been wrestling with ...

Yankees legend pays homage to latest Hall inductees CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki

Yankees legend Hideki Matsui played seven seasons for the Yankees. It wasn’t until his final one, in 2009, with the addition ...

Athletics signee Shotaro Morii is charting a rare path for Japanese baseball players

Japanese baseball stars have almost exclusively come to MLB after playing in NPB. Morii is breaking precedent by signing with ...

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Dodgers sign Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki

In a move that could shape the future of their rotation and further solidify their global reach, the Dodgers have signed ...

Who is Shotaro Morii? And why is his signing with the Athletics such a big deal?

There’s another Japanese two-way phenom coming to MLB, and he could shake up the posting system as we know it.

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Roki Sasaki landing spots: Ranking the teams that most need Japanese ace with IFA window set to reopen

It also means Roki Sasaki, star righty most recently of the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan, is eligible to sign with MLB teams. They've waited a long, long time to get a shot at him. Because he is ...

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