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Ichiro, Japanese Hall Of Famer Who Helped Redefine Baseball

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.

FOXSports on MSN · 2d

Ichiro Suzuki becomes first player from Japan to be inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame

Ichiro Suzuki has made even more history. The all-time great hitter is heading to Cooperstown, with C.C. Sabathia and Billy Wagner joining him.

CNN on MSN · 2d

Ichiro Suzuki headlines 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame class, receiving 99.7% of the vote

Players are elected to the Hall of Fame provided they are named on at least 75% of ballots cast by eligible voting members of the BBWAA. With 394 ballots submitted in the 2025 election, candidates needed to receive 296 votes to be elected.

Japanese star Roki Sasaki now a Dodger

The Boston Globe · 1d

Shohei Ohtani informed the Dodgers they had landed prized Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki

Ohtani sent a text to Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman even before Sasaki’s agent informed the club.

The Associated Press on MSN · 1d

Dodgers announce deal with prized Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki, who gets $6.5 million signing bonus

He joined fellow Japanese stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the Dodgers in a decision many baseball executives long expected.

CNN on MSN · 16h

Meet Roki Sasaki, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ next Japanese superstar

What do you buy for the team that has everything? That is the question that the Los Angeles Dodgers have been wrestling with this winter. The answer, it would appear, is Roki Sasaki.

'Journey just beginning': Japan's Sasaki signs with Dodgers

Roki Sasaki said he looks forward to starting his Major League Baseball career in Los Angeles after signing a deal with the ...

Athletics signee Shotaro Morii is charting a rare path for Japanese baseball players

Japanese baseball stars have almost exclusively come to MLB after playing in NPB. Morii is breaking precedent by signing with ...

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Shohei Ohtani’s Favorite Beverage, ‘Oi Ocha,’ Signs Partnership Contract with Major League Baseball Across Japan and the United States

(President and Representative Director: Daisuke Honjo, Headquarters: Shibuya, Tokyo), the world's No. 1 unsweetened green tea beverage brand "Oi Ocha" (*1) and Major League Baseball (MLB), announced ...

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Brewers sign a pitcher from Japanese league with one of the most unique fastballs in baseball

A pitcher who spent last season playing in Japan has signed with a major-league club, but it isn't Roki Sasaki. The Milwaukee ...

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