Ichiro Suzuki was confident about making his Major League Baseball debut in the United States. He had a perfect record as a professional baseball player in Japan. There were voices of doubt from ...
Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Fan favorite Japanese singer Ichiro Mizuki died age 74 on December 6 of lung cancer. He will be sorely missed. Back in July ...
Ichiro had 210 hits in 1994, breaking what had been the record at the time. It was the first time in the history of Japanese professional baseball for a player to log more than 200 hits per season.
And then there's Ichiro. He keeps his bats in a humidor. Two humidors, actually. He has a large metal case that holds 10 bats and is kept inside a locked room in the Mariners clubhouse and he has ...
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But when the culprit is baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki, the broken glass becomes a memento preserved to inspire young players and other students. Suzuki, 50, went to Asahikawa Higashi High School ...