In the 1995 Japanese championship series, he outsmarted batting champion Ichiro Suzuki, leading his team to victory.
In 2007, Ichiro Suzuki (Seattle Mariners), a major league player, chose his "Tomaranai Ha~Ha" as an AT-BAT MUSIC of 2008 with Ringo Shiina's "Yokushitsu" and "Identity".
This athlete had won the 1995 championship series and had defeated Ichiro Suzuki (who would become the batting champion that year).
Ichiro Suzuki (born 1973), nickname Ichi, Japanese baseball player
Such as, "deep fly ball to right right center, but Ichiro's got his PF Flyers. He ran it down."
After his third error of the game allowed the Seattle to take a 10–9 lead in the top of the 9th, Vázquez doubled to right-center field off Mariners closer J. J. Putz, just out of Ichiro's reach, to drive in 2 runs as the Rangers won the game 11–10.
Professional baseball player Ichiro Suzuki used Star of Giants as a reference to his grueling childhood baseball training.
In 2006, his critique of Ichiro Suzuki's remarks at the World Baseball Classic were considered controversial by some, and so have some of his other writings related to Japanese nationalism, the emperor, sexuality, bullying, and Japanese society.
Keeler had an amazing 206 singles during the 1898 season, a record that stood for more than 100 years until broken by Ichiro Suzuki.
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He is one of only seven players (along with Pete Rose, Ty Cobb, Julio Franco, Hank Aaron, Ichiro Suzuki, and Stan Musial) known to have amassed at least 4,000 combined hits in the major leagues and minor leagues.