COOPERSTOWN — Ichiro Suzuki stole the show with his nearly 20-minute speech, delivered in English. Long known to those around him for speaking English well, Ichiro always chose to speak publicly in Japanese, using an interpreter. Now a Hall of Famer, Ichiro chose Sunday to break out a witty speech in front of a crowd of thousands of fans wearing …
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Ichiro has a Hall of Fame mind and on off the field. The long-time Seattle Mariner didn’t hold back during his Hall of Fame acceptance speech on Sunday, calling out the lone Baseball Writers’ Association voter who failed to include him on his or her ballot, despite his historic career achievements. “Three‑thousand hits or 262 hits in one season are …
Read More »COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — If you want someone for your next celebrity roast, Ichiro Suzuki could be your guy. Mixing sneaky humor with heartfelt messages, the first Japanese-born player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame stole the show Sunday in Cooperstown. Morning showers and gloomy skies delayed the ceremonies by an hour, but the moisture gave way …
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Bradford DoolittleJul 27, 2025, 06:34 PM ET Close MLB writer and analyst for ESPN.com Former NBA writer and analyst for ESPN.com Been with ESPN since 2013 COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese-born player to be enshrined into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, one of five new members of baseball’s hallowed institution. After enduring the …
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — As CC Sabathia prepares for his enshrinement in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the Cleveland legend is using his platform to advocate for overlooked stars and the future of Black players in baseball. Speaking to reporters ahead of his Cooperstown induction, the former Cleveland first-round draft pick who spent eight seasons with the Indians and won …
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On Sept. 9, 2014, three months before the members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Golden Era Committee would vote to determine whether any of the 10 candidates on their ballot were worthy of induction, the writer and statistician Bill James wrote an email inspired, at least partially, by a vague threat. Dick Allen was one of those candidates. …
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Major League Baseball will honour this year’s Hall of Fame induction weekend with a look back into the past across the league as all 30 teams wear retro-style caps during games played July 25 through 27. It marks the first time every club has worn a specially designed throwback cap for the occasion. The caps, each designed by New Era, …
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It’s Hall of Fame weekend — for Ichiro Suzuki, for CC Sabathia, for Billy Wagner and for two men who will be missed on that podium, Dick Allen and Dave Parker. We’ll be talking and writing about all of them in the coming days. We promise. But this is a different kind of Hall of Fame column — because it’s …
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Jul 19, 2025, 06:06 PM ET NEW YORK — The New York Mets inducted David Wright into their hall of fame and retired his No. 5 on Saturday — nearly 21 years after his big league debut. “I went straight from the airport to the ballpark, and I couldn’t wait to see what number I was going to be,” Wright …
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