Newly elected Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki will throw the ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day for h ...

TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he's much more than that in Japan ... On the way, he bumped into pressure in Japan to conform, expressed in the saying “deru kugi wa utareru.” ...

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TOKYO--Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball ... expressed in the saying “deru kugi wa utareru.” Roughly in English: “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” “Young people flocked ...

Ichiro Suzuki fell one vote short of becoming the ... With total respect, I didn’t know if he knew any English. So I looked over, and, in my imitation of what I heard in Japan, I said ...

The voter who denied Ichiro Suzuki a unanimous election to Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame will remain a mystery, even ...

“I actually started kind of getting nervous,” Ichiro said in a Tuesday conference call. “So, I was actually relieved when I first got the call.” Suzuki took limited questions in English ...

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player to ... who was not asked about the one vote in a brief, English-portion of a news conference following the announcement, said through an interpreter.

Ichiro Suzuki could have been immortalized as a first ... He didn’t do interviews in English, and other than a few lighthearted queries about his daring fashion sense, he didn’t entertain ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Hall of Fame voter who declined to select Ichiro Suzuki remains a mystery. All 321 voters who allowed their ballots to be made public Tuesday by the Baseball Writers ...