Hall of Fame, Ichiro Suzuki and Major League Baseball

Who's the one Hall of Fame voter who didn't find Ichiro Suzuki worthy? It wasn't me!
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Baseball world reacts to Ichiro Suzuki's near-unanimous Hall of Fame selection
Ichiro Suzuki has been named to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the possible vote. Here are the best reactions from around the internet.
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 is much more than that at home in Japan. Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride — like Shohei Ohtani now — and his fame across the Pacific was therapeutic as the national economy sputtered through the so-called lost decades.
Mariners icon Ichiro Suzuki elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame
The career .311 MLB hitter was the 2001 AL MVP and Rookie of the Year and won 10 consecutive AL Gold Glove Awards, all with the Mariners.
Ichiro joins elite club of Hall of Famers born outside the U.S.
When Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese-born player to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he became the 23rd player born outside the United States (including Puerto Rico, which, though it is a U.
Worthy: A hat tip to Ichiro Suzuki for getting to the Hall of Fame one base at a time
The international significance of Ichiro Suzuki’s selection to the National Baseball Hall of Fame shouldn’t get overlooked or downplayed. It will be a benchmark moment in baseball history this summer when he becomes the first Japanese player enshrined in Cooperstown,
Who will be the first ‘true’ Ray voted into the Hall of Fame?
Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner celebrating their well-deserved elections to baseball’s Hall of Fame brings us back to a question we’ve been pondering for 20-plus years: Who will be the first “true” Ray in Cooperstown?
2025 Baseball Hall of Fame voting results: Ichiro Suzuki elected alongside CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner
Baseball Hall of Fame class will include five players. Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner will join Dick Allen and ...
Ichiro, Sabathia & Wagner elected to Hall of Fame, impact of Roki Sasaki to Dodgers | Baseball Bar-B-Cast
Subscribe to Baseball Bar-B-Cast Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube The members of the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame class were ...
Ichiro elected to Baseball Hall of Fame, 1 vote shy of unanimous selection
Ichiro will be the first Japanese player enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame during the induction ceremony on July 27 in ...
Baseball Hall of Fame 2025: Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner head to Cooperstown
Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia were elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame on Tuesday night, Suzuki in overwhelming fashion, while ...
Ichiro Headlines Three-Player Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2025
Ichiro received 99.7% of the vote, meaning just one Hall of Fame voter left him off their ballot. As such, former New York ...
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Ichiro finds special joy in his place of peace, the Hall of Fame, which he’s forever changed
This time, Ichiro Suzuki was walking through these doors, of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, as one of the legends. Advertisement “This is my eighth time here in the Hall of Fame — and ...
Ichiro Suzuki, C.C. Sabathia, Billy Wagner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Ichiro Suzuki, C.C. Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected as the newest members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the ...