Where to begin with Ichiro Suzuki? With how he’d appropriate his daily lunch of chicken wings from seven to five pieces, or vice versa, as needed to weigh 172 pounds? How he’d put his ear to his bat ...

A weak crop of first-timers on next year's ballot could provide an opening for some deserving holdover candidates.

New York Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca, left, congratulates closer Billy Wagner by patting him on the cap after the Mets 4-3 win ...

The first time Ichiro Suzuki set foot into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. was nearly a quarter-century ago, back on Nov. 12, 2001.

baseman with a powerful bat. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images ... The Class of 2024 brings the total Cooperstown membership to 346, including 273 former players, 40 pioneers and executives ...

Yet, right up the street, the Hit King signed bats and photos and baseball cards in Cooperstown, for one adoring fan after another. So there continued to be no sign whatsoever that any of this ...

A black bat used by Ichiro Suzuki in his 2001 debut season with the Seattle Mariners and now preserved at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, is shown by the ...