Ichiro Suzuki was one of the faces of baseball during the 2000s after making the jump from the Japanese League to join the ...
Ichiro debuted in Major League Baseball in 2001 with the Seattle Mariners, the first Japanese position player to span the Pacific and an instant star. Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and ...
The Los Angeles Dodgers have built a global brand over decades, beginning with Walter O'Malley's vision for international influence. This vision gained momentu ...
What do you buy for the team that has everything? That is the question that the Los Angeles Dodgers have been wrestling with ...
It would be 30 years before MLB got another Japanese player. Hideo Nomo joined the Dodgers in 1995 and was the NL Rookie of the Year with a 13-6 record. Overall in America, he worked in 324 games ...
Sasaki will be the 13th Japanese-born player to wear Dodger blue, joining the likes of Hideo Nomo, Kenta Maeda and current head coach Dave Roberts. Only the New York Mets have had more Japanese ...
Although players like Hideo Nomo and Hideki Matsui have been considered ... During his time with the Orix BlueWave in Japan's Kansai region, Ichiro developed his iconic "pendulum swing," a unique ...