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Newly elected Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Ichiro Suzuki talks to reporters during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Cooperstown, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Ichiro Suzuki is 50 years old and has been retired from MLB since 2019, but he can still hit home runs that break windows. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images) (Steph Chambers via Getty Images)
Ichiro Suzuki. Suzuki, 51, had a lengthy, unprecedented career that spanned three decades in two countries. His pro career began as an 18-year-old in Japan after he was drafted by the Orix BlueWave.
The display of Ichiro Suzuki, located on the third floor of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, which shows the Ichi-meter, record for hits in a season for Ichiro Suzuki in 2004. Suzuki had his best offensive season in 2004, highlighted by his breaking of George Sisler 's 84-year-old record for most hits (257) in a season.
It was a little past 8 a.m. in Tokyo when the newest inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame were announced. Next year there could be some big celebrations over breakfast in Japan. Ichiro Suzuki ...
Ichiro Suzuki was the first high-profile NPB player (second overall) to use the posting system. The posting system (ポスティングシステム, posutingu shisutemu) [1] is a baseball player transfer system that operates between Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB). Despite the drafting of the United States ...
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A total of 81 Japanese-born [1] [2] players have played in at least one Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Of these players, eleven are on existing MLB rosters.The first instance of a Japanese player playing in MLB occurred in 1964, when the Nankai Hawks, a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) team, sent three exchange prospects to the United States to gain experience in MLB's minor league system.