After being elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday afternoon, Seattle Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki got a surprise call from fellow Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr.

In Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner, the Baseball Writers Association delivered quite an eclectic trifecta to Cooperstown on Tuesday. The first Japanese player ever elected to the Hall of ...

Ken Griffey Jr. and Nolan Ryan weren’t unanimous either - there were two other instances Tuesday night where sanity loudly prevailed, at both ends of the Hall of Fame spectrum, with CC Sabathia ...

Ken Griffey Jr. welcomed his former Seattle Mariners teammate, Ichiro Suzuki, to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in an MLB Network video shared Tuesday by MLB's Twitter/X account. Griffey, a ...

Suzuki will be joining fellow franchise greats Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martinez in Cooperstown, N.Y. Suzuki will also be joining those two Seattle legends in another prestigious group.

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner will join ... The next-highest percentages previously belonged to Derek Jeter (99.7%), Ken Griffey Jr. (99.3), Tom Seaver (98.8) and Nolan Ryan ...

NEW YORK — Ichiro Suzuki is all but guaranteed to become the first Japanese player in baseball's Hall of Fame, and CC Sabathia ... 395 of 396 in 2020 and Ken Griffey Jr. on 437 of 440 in ...

The Mariners on Tuesday said that they would retire Suzuki's No. 51 on Aug. 9, making him just the team's third player -- along with Ken Griffey ... and Steve Carlton. CC Sabathia finished 251-161 ...

Ken Griffey Jr. played on the same Seattle team as Ichiro in 2009 and 2010, near the end of Junior's playing career.