NEW YORK — Ichiro Suzuki is all but guaranteed to become the first Japanese player in baseball's Hall of Fame, and CC Sabathia ... Major League Baseball from Japan as a 27-year-old in 2001 ...
Outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, left-handed starter CC Sabathia, and left-handed ... 3,089 hits in MLB and another 1,278 in Japan. Like Suzuki, Sabathia gets in as a first-time eligible player, while ...
Welcome to the Hall of Fame, Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner ... Suzuki -- let's just call him Ichiro -- grew up in Japan, of course, and was a star in the Japan Pacific League ...
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Former Yankees Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia joined former Met Billy ... Suzuki struggled to process being the first player from Japan elected to the Hall.
CC Sabathia’s career ended abruptly ... The slap-hitting Suzuki was already a baseball hero in his native Japan when he joined the Seattle Mariners in 2001, but a Japanese position player ...
CC Sabathia is now a Baseball Hall of Famer ... Arriving in the majors at age 27 as an established star in Japan, Ichiro made 10 straight All-Star teams with the Seattle Mariners, capturing ...
Suzuki had been to the Hall seven times before attending a news conference Thursday with fellow electees CC Sabathia and Billy ... being the first player from Japan elected to the Hall.
The Yankees went the extra mile(s) to sign CC Sabathia. As contract talks heated ... Between his MLB production and his 1,278 hits in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league, Suzuki finished ...
Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia were elected to Baseball’s Hall ... compiling 3,089 hits – he had 4,286 between the majors and Japan’s top league – and winning a pair of batting titles.
Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected Tuesday along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.
CC Sabathia was a workhorse ... MLB career and amassed 3,089 hits — and that’s not counting what he did in Japan. His 4,367 career hits in MLB and NPB exceed even Pete Rose’s 4,265.