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.
on Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- When Ken Griffey Jr.'s own baseball-star father struggled to ...
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 ...
Suzuki will be joining fellow franchise greats Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martinez in Cooperstown ... you energized fans in the Northwest, in Japan and around the world with both your skill ...
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 ...