Ichiro Suzuki is heading to the Hall of Fame - but he fell one vote short of history. The Japanese outfielder is one of three players announced Tuesday as part of the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame class.

Ichiro Suzuki—just his name brings a smile to baseball fans. This legend, born on October 22, 1973, in Kasugai, Japan, broke records while redefining what it meant to be a hitter. Starting out ...

Suzuki could join Mariano Rivera as the only unanimous picks for ... Suzuki came to Major League Baseball from Japan as a 27-year-old in 2001 and joined Fred Lynn in 1975 as the only players ...

Mariano Rivera may soon have some company ... Ichiro will be the first Japanese-born player in the Hall of Fame and just the second player ever to be unanimously elected to Cooperstown.

Ichiro Suzuki was among the few Japanese players who transitioned ... It places him narrowly behind Derek Jeter (2020) and Mariano Rivera (2019) in Hall of Fame voting percentages.

Now stepping into the batter's box against Mariano Rivera: Ichiro Suzuki ... was a star with Seattle after coming over from Japan. He finished a 19-year big-league career with a ...

In Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner, the Baseball Writers Association delivered quite an eclectic trifecta to Cooperstown on Tuesday. The first Japanese player ever elected to the Hall of ...

The Japanese outfielder is one of three players ... but there is only one that was a unanimous selection — Mariano Rivera. All 425 ballots that were submitted in 2019 included the legendary ...