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Ichiro Suzuki
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Japanese Hall of Fame baseball player
Ichiro Suzuki is a legendary Japanese baseball player who became one of the most successful hitters in the sport's history. He matters because he was a dominant force in Japanese baseball before joining Major League Baseball, where he continued to achieve remarkable success and became an iconic figure bridging Japanese and American baseball.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Corrosion-Resist Coatings
- Ichiro on Ichiro
- Chiiki kenkyu nyumon
- Corrosion-resistant coatings technology
- Shokun sho sakuin
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Toyoyama, Aichi, Japan
Known for
- See Her Be Her — Self2024
- Baseball: The Tenth Inning — Self2010
- MLB: Baseball's Seasons — Self (archive footage)2009
- Studio 42 with Bob Costas — Self2009
- Furuhata Ninzaburo — Ichiro Suzuki1994
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 392
- Total plays
- 1,279
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ichiro+Suzuki">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organoboron Compounds
· 1995 · cited 12,071x
- Functional Porous Coordination Polymers
· 2004 · cited 10,619x
- Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges
· 2006 · cited 7,044x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,740x
- The International HapMap Project
· 2003 · cited 4,910x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “It's not surprising. At the same time, it's not that usual. It's somewhere between usual and surprising.”
- “I could become a Gold Glove-caliber shortstop. Not as talented as Vizquel, but definitely on par with Jeter.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Sports profile
- Sport
- Baseball
- Team
- _Retired Baseball
- Position
- Outfielder
- Nationality
- Japan
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 71
- Image
- Ichiro Suzuki on May 11, 2011.jpg
- Height
- 180
- Number of children
- 0
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- Ichiro Suzuki
- date of birth
- 1973-10-22
- birth name
- 鈴木 一朗
- name in native language
- イチロー
- hashtag
- 스즈키이치로
- nickname
- Ichi
via Wikidata · CC0
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Article
Ichiro Suzuki (/ˈiːtʃɪroʊ/; Japanese: 鈴木 一朗, romanized: Suzuki Ichirō; IPA: [sɨzɨkʲi it͡ɕiɾo̞ː]; born October 22, 1973), also known mononymously as Ichiro (イチロー, Ichirō), is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder who played for 28 seasons. He played the first nine years of his career with the Orix BlueWave of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and the next 12 years with the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). Suzuki then played two and a half seasons with the New York Yankees and three with the Miami Marlins before returning to the Mariners for his final two seasons. He won two World Baseball Classic titles with the Japan national team. One of the greatest contact hitters, leadoff hitters, and defensive outfielders in baseball history, he is also considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time.
In his combined playing time in the NPB and MLB, Suzuki received 17 consecutive selections as an All-Star and Gold Glove winner, won nine league batting titles, and was named his league's most valuable player (MVP) four times. In NPB, he won seven consecutive batting titles and three consecutive Pacific League MVP Awards. In 2001, Suzuki became the first Japanese-born position player to be posted and signed to an MLB club. He led the American League (AL) in batting average and stolen bases en route to being named AL Rookie of the Year and AL MVP.