For the first time since becoming the Washington Nationals in 2005, the team has signed an international player directly from ...

Left-hander Shinnosuke Ogasawara and the Washington Nationals have agreed to a $3.5 million, two-year contract.

Even six years into retirement, Ichiro Suzuki retains his burning passion for baseball, training hard every day so he can ...

Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride — like Shohei Ohtani now — and his fame across the Pacific was therapeutic as ...

Expected to be the first Japanese player elected to the Cooperstown on Tuesday, Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride and ...

This is an excerpt from the latest edition of Michael Clair's International Beat Newsletter, bringing global baseball news to ...

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he ...

Back home, he's a wellspring of national pride ... playing baseball at age 7 on a Little League team near Nagoya in central Japan. Sure, baseball is baseball, but the culture around the game ...