After receiving the call from the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Ichiro Suzuki sat down with Bob Costas to talk about his historic journey in the Majors

“Lou Piniella was very skeptical,” said Larry Stone, a Seattle Times baseball writer who has covered Ichiro’s career extensively. “That spring training, Ichiro started off not pulling the ball, not driving the ball. And Lou was like, ‘Who is this guy? When is he going to show me something?’”