Baseball: Hall of Fame awaits frequent visitor Ichiro Suzuki

For years, Ichiro Suzuki has been making the trek to the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, where he might soon be enshrined as the first Hall of Famer from Japan. Hall of Fame President Josh Rawitch said Suzuki is special, not just because of his accomplishments in Major League Baseball but also because of his career in Japan and his unusually strong connection with baseball history and the Hall itself. “I don’t think you can say enough things about what Ichiro means to baseball in Japan and in the United States,” Rawitch said in a recent Kyodo News interview. “It’s…

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