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 ...

Ichiro Suzuki, on getting drilled by Hideo Nomo in the fifth inning In Japan ... While Lampkin imagined blood running through the streets of Tokyo, he and the other players were nonchalant ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers have a rich history of international signings, which Hideo Nomo is part of as the first Japanese-born player in Major League Baseball. Nomo was originally signed by the ...

And his global fame has already surpassed that of other Japanese players who moved to the US before him, including Ichiro Suzuki, Hideo Nomo, Hideki Matsui, Yu Darvish and Masahiro Tanaka.