As of Ichiro’s speech, the writer who left him off the ballot, keeping him from becoming the second unanimous first ballot ...

Ichiro Suzuki, the first Japanese Hall of Famer in baseball history, had one of the most humorous speeches since the late Bob ...

There he was, in the flesh, at the Otesaga Resort Hotel on the eve of his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame: ...

If you ask one of the people who covered him on the biggest of stages in that era, the answer is an unequivocal yes.