Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball's all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in ...

When Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese-born player to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he became the ...

FILE - Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki, of Japan, hits a solo home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels ... and Hideki Matsui came just after, both ...

Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country's confidence in a period of national malaise. Tsutsui termed Ichiro a "great cultural ...

Sal doesn’t see it as a knock on the Yanks, but it does show that the days of Hideki Matsui and Masahiro Tanaka are over, as the Bombers are now underdogs with the best players from Japan ...

from Hideki Irabu and Hideki Matsui to Kei Igawa, Hiroki Kuroda and Masahiro Tanaka. But since Tanaka came to the Bronx in 2014, the Yankees haven't been able to land a Japanese player of any ...

In the bottom of the eighth inning of the April 11, 2001, game between the Oakland A's and visiting Seattle Mariners, A's outfielder Terrence Long bounced a leadoff single up the middle off Aaron Sele ...

Angels (5 players; 35.8 fWAR) Key players: Shohei Ohtani, Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Hideki Matsui Five Japanese-born ballplayers have suited up for the Angels in their history. Of those five, four have ...