Suzuki is the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous. NEW YORK (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of ...

by Ronald Blum | AP Baseball Writer TOPICS: NEW YORK — Ichiro Suzuki is all but guaranteed to become the first Japanese player in baseball's Hall of Fame, and CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner and ...

Once more, for baseball immortality, Billy Wagner closed it out. Wagner, the dominant closer who played a two-season sliver of his 16-year career with the Phillies, got elected Tuesday night to the ...

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected to the National Baseball Hall ... Ichiro spent 28 years as a professional player between the United States and Japan. Over nine seasons, Ichiro ...

Wagner had a 1.98 earned run average and struck out 22 of the 56 batters he faced in his 15 games for the Red sox in 2009.

NEW YORK-- Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball's Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected Tuesday along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.

Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for the Hall, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. Quite the journey for a 27-year-old who ...

22 (UPI) --Ichiro Suzuki, C.C. Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected as the newest ... that I would be a Hall of Famer," Ichiro, the first Japanese player elected to the Hall of Fame, told ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Former Yankees Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia joined former Met Billy Wagner on Thursday at ... process being the first player from Japan elected to the Hall.