Used to leading off, Ichiro Suzuki got antsy when he had to ... He is perhaps the best contact hitter ever, with 1,278 hits in Nippon Professional Baseball and 3,089 in MLB, including a season ...

Include his 1,278 base hits playing professionally in Japan, and Ichiro is considered the all-time hit leader of professional baseball with 4,367 between both leagues (Pete Rose leads the all-time ...

1948 — WGN-TV televised a baseball game for the first time ... Grady Sizemore led off Cleveland’s 2-1 win over the Chicago White Sox with a double. 2009 — Ichiro Suzuki makes history as collects the 3 ...

And Ichiro Suzuki will likely increase the number ... began his MLB career in 2001 after nine seasons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He's one of two players in the history of the league ...

TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki is all about ... go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball’s all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) — more even than Pete ...

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese ... % last year and 7.3% when he first appeared in 2018. Suzuki came to Major League Baseball from Japan as a 27-year-old in 2001 and joined Fred Lynn ...

Used to leading off, Ichiro Suzuki got antsy when he had to ... He is perhaps the best contact hitter ever, with 1,278 hits in Nippon Professional Baseball and 3,089 in MLB, including a season ...