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

Two thousand fans piled into their seats at Stanford University's baseball stadium in Palo Alto, filling the grandstands and ...

Ichiro topped that interest level, wrote Robert Whiting in his book “The Samurai Way of Baseball.” “Ichiro was the first to appear front and center ever single day — a slender Japanese ...

His triumphs across the Pacific buoyed the nation as Japan's economy ... as a regimented baseball-training system that some link to the martial arts and even samurai history.