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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 ...
The Seattle Mariners are spending their penultimate weekend at home this season honoring future Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki’s career with “Ichiro Weekend,” which kicked off Friday night in Seattle.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- 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 ...
ESPN anchor Todd Grisham has apologized for tweeting about what he believed to be a Japanese baseball player’s “unwillingness to learn English after 15 years in America.” Grisham has since deleted the ...
An ESPN personality who mocked Ichiro Suzuki after the Japanese star notched his 3,000th MLB hit deleted his bone-headed remark and issued an apology after being called out on Twitter. Todd Grisham, ...
SEATTLE — Ichiro wasn’t sure he would last a year in the major leagues. Anger helped him deliver what became known as the “Star Wars” throw. He wished the third-base coach had given him the stop sign ...
The Miami Marlins’ Ichiro Suzuki is often accompanied by a translator, but that doesn’t mean the Japanese baseball player can’t speak English. Assumptions, however, do happen. ESPN’s Todd Grisham, for ...
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Shortly after he retired in 2019, Ichiro attended a Mariners game as a fan, sitting in the stands with his wife, Yumiko, for the first time. “We did it the American way by eating ...
With Ichiro Suzuki on the cusp of becoming the 30th member of baseball’s 3,000-hit club, Derek Jeter took the opportunity to praise him for a Hall of Fame career. Writing on The Players’ Tribune, ...
ESPN anchor Todd Grisham has apologized for tweeting about what he believed to be a Japanese baseball player’s “unwillingness to learn English after 15 years in America.” Grisham has since deleted the ...