| Professional Baseball PlayerIchiro Suzuki, often known simply as Ichiro, is a Japanese outfielder for the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team.- Ichiro did not miss a beat in his transition.
- Ichiro is the first MLB player to join The Golden Players Club.
- Early Life
At age seven, Ichiro joined his first baseball team and asked his father, Nobuyuki Suzuki, to teach him to be a better player.- According to Ichiro, "It bordered on hazing and I suffered a lot."
When Ichiro joined his high school baseball team, his father told the coach, "No matter how good Ichiro is, don't ever praise him.- We have to make him spiritually strong." While in high school, his c...
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