It won't be official until the voting is released, but Ichiro Suzuki is heading to the Hall of Fame. The Japanese outfielder is expected to be one of the names inducted into Cooperstown in the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame class.

Ichiro Suzuki was among the few Japanese players who transitioned well from Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball to Major League Baseball.

Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball's all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) -- more even than Pete Rose's 4,256. He broke George Sisler's single-season hits mark of 257 in 2004. The new mark is 262.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki could join Mariano Rivera as the only unanimous picks for baseball’s Hall of Fame and CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner and Carlos Beltrán also could be elected when ...

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

“He healed the wounds in Japan’s national psyche,” Kiyoteru ... player chosen unanimously after New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera. Ichiro debuted in Major League Baseball in 2001 ...

Suzuki could join Mariano Rivera as the only unanimous picks for ... Suzuki came to Major League Baseball from Japan as a 27-year-old in 2001 and joined Fred Lynn in 1975 as the only players ...

“He healed the wounds in Japan’s national psyche,” Kiyoteru ... player chosen unanimously after New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera. Ichiro debuted in Major League Baseball in 2001 ...

Suzuki could join Mariano Rivera as the only unanimous picks for ... Suzuki came to Major League Baseball from Japan as a 27-year-old in 2001 and joined Fred Lynn in 1975 as the only players ...

Now stepping into the batter's box against Mariano Rivera: Ichiro Suzuki ... was a star with Seattle after coming over from Japan. He finished a 19-year big-league career with a

Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki fell one vote short of joining Yankees closer Mariano Rivera and becoming the ... Suzuki will become the first player from Japan in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

A lawsuit charges that the Yankees star and his wife, Clara, failed to act when they became aware that a young girl had been assaulted at a program affiliated with their church.