Baseball: Ichiro Suzuki, face of changing Hall of Fame

Ichiro Suzuki, who becomes eligible next year for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, is already a familiar name at the Cooperstown, New York, museum, and part of its story of baseball’s expanding global reach and evolution. The hall, whose five inaugural members, including Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, were selected in 1936, expanded its membership to the Caribbean with Puerto Rico’s Roberto Clemente in 1973. There are currently six Hall of Famers from Cuba, five from the Dominican Republic, three from Puerto Rico, two each from Canada and Panama and one each from Venezuela and the Ne…

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