Ichiro Suzuki Hall of Fame

The controversy is installed, after Ichiro Suzuki He arrived at the Hall of Fame, but not with 100% of the votes, after a journalist did not vote for the Japanese.

To lower the foam to the entire situation Ichiro Suzuki said he wants to provide with the voter who decided not to mark his name on the ballot of the Hall of Fame.

“There is a writer who could not get a vote”he said through an interpreter on Thursday, two days after receiving 393 of the 394 votes of the United States Baseball Writers Association.

“I would like to invite you to my house, we will have a drink together and we will have a good talk”he commented.

Ichiro Suzuki First Japanese in the Hall of Fame

Suzuki had been in the hall seven times before attending a press conference, on Thursday, with his elected fellow CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. The trio will be induced on July 27 along with Dave Parker and Dick Allen, elected last month by the Committee of the Classic Era.

Suzuki had difficulty assimilating the fact of becoming the first Japan player chosen for the living room.

“Maybe in five or ten years I can look back and maybe we can say that this is what it meant”said.

The BBWAA Secretary-Teleros, Jack O’Connell, recalled that Suzuki was in the room in 2001 when he called to inform the Seattle star that he had been chosen a rookie of the year of the American League. Suzuki received 27 of the 28 votes first, all but one of an Ohio writer who selected Sabathia.

“My rookie of the year stole me”Sabathia said in a jocular tone.

Batches against CC Sabathia

Sabathia remembered a game in Secofo Field on July 30, 2005. He had worked with Cleveland’s pitching coach, Carl Willis, in a Bullpen session on a release he could do to remove Suzuki, which turned out to be a slider.

“I put two strikes to Ichi and he hits the home run in the window”Sabathia said on the 428 feet hit that hit the second floor restaurant in the right garden, at that time the longest home run of Suzuki’s career in the big leagues. “He returns in his next turn to the Bat, he throws it again, in the first launch he sends her again out”.

Suzuki’s second home run broke a draw in the sixth entry into the victory of the Mariners by 3-2.

While the trio talked about his favorite memories, Suzuki mentioned a model of the hall of fame that the room had created – not a real design – that included his dog, Ikkyu.

“Our dog and then Bob Feller’s cat are the only animals that have the Plate of the Hall of Fame. That is something I appreciate “said Suzuki, referring to a model with the pitcher’s cat, Felix.

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