The 45-year-old Ichiro thanked fans and teammates during a pregame ceremony in his honor before the Mariners capped the night with a walk-off win.

Ichiro Suzuki, the first Japanese Hall of Famer in baseball history, had one of the most humorous speeches since the late Bob Uecker.

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 ...

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No. 51 didn’t mean anything to Ichiro Suzuki when he was drafted in 1991. Like all of the Orix Blue Wave’s picks, he was ...

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… ...

Ichiro spoke mostly through an interpreter to English-speaking media for his entire career, in part because he did not want his words to be misunderstood. He often brings a unique perspective.

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 … ...

Ichiro Suzuki's lengthy baseball career is Hall of Fame worthy — nearly unanimously so. The Japanese superstar was voted into Cooperstown on Tuesday, coming up one vote short of being the second ...

Ichiro’s notable quotes have nearly all been quixotic, mysterious, and way out of character—at least the character his translator reveals. Here is Part Two.

Ichiro speaks English, including expletives, well and can communicate with teammates in Spanish, too. He uses an interpreter when addressing members of the media to avoid being misunderstood.