Ichiro joins elite club of Hall of Famers born outside U.S.

Who's the one Hall of Fame voter who didn't find Ichiro Suzuki worthy? It wasn't me!
In my business, that knee-jerk response comes in handy. Fending off blame is a survival skill. A columnist knows he can’t fight a tidal wave of angry emails and social-media posts and, at some point, gives up trying to argue he is not, in fact, a nitwit. From there, it’s a short hop to a renunciation of any personal responsibility.
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 22nd player born outside the United States (including Puerto Rico, which, though it is a U.
Who left Ichiro off Hall of Fame ballot? You should know (but not for reason you think)
BBWAA voters are a small group with a very big responsibility. We should be willing to talk about it. Or write about it. It’s what we do.
Worthy: A hat tip to Ichiro Suzuki for getting to the Hall of Fame one base at a time
Willie McGee won the National League MVP or the 1985 season, in which he hit just 10 home runs. McGee also batted .353. Vince Coleman scored 107 runs that season, and he had more than three times as many stolen bases (110) as he had extra-base hits (31). The leading home run hitter on the team, Jack Clark, hit just 22 homers.
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.
Ichiro finds special joy in his place of peace, the Hall of Fame, which he’s forever changed
No one has ever walked through these doors with the sport-changing, Hall-changing, planet-changing possibilities of Ichiro.
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Hall of Fame: So who’s the idiot who dissed Ichiro Suzuki? | Klapisch
Of course I voted for Ichiro Suzuki - along with the other no-brainers on the ballot, including CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.
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