Ichiro Suzuki has become the first Japanese player to make it to baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is likely to be the next.

The Athletics signed Japanese baseball player Shotaro Morii, just 18 years old, to a $1,510,000 bonus deal in a very different way than the rest of his compatriots. Morii chose the

Expected to be the first Japanese player elected to the Cooperstown on Tuesday, Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride and his fame across the Pacific when he joined MLB was therapeutic for his