After being elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday afternoon, Seattle Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki got a surprise call from fellow Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr.

When Ken Griffey Jr.'s own baseball-star father struggled to get through to the talented teen, Rickey Henderson somehow could ...

An online site that tracks Baseball Hall of Fame voting doesn’t expect the lone voter who did not check Ichiro Suzuki on his ballot to ever come forward.

Seattle Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki is headed to the Hall of Fame after receiving 99.7 percent of votes from eligible Baseball Writers’ Association of America members.

Derek Jeter was picked on 395 of 396 in 2020 and Ken Griffey Jr. on 437 of 440 in 2016. Suzuki came to Major League Baseball from Japan as a 27-year-old in 2001 and joined Fred Lynn in 1975 as the ...

Ken Griffey Jr. has the third-highest percentage ... perhaps because he spent only nine seasons playing in Japan before he made the move to MLB prior to the 2001 season. In 19 MLB seasons ...

His #51 jersey will be retired in a pregame ceremony at T-Mobile Park on Aug. 9, joining Mariners legends Ken Griffey Jr. (#24), Edgar ... League Baseball from Japan as a 27-year-old in 2001 ...

One of the best players to ever play the game, Ichiro was a professional for 28 seasons between his time in Japan and the United ... friend and former teammate Ken Griffey Jr. Ichiro is known ...