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After winning seven consecutive batting titles in Japanese League, Mariners' top rookie brings his talent to The Show
TWENTY JAPANESE MEDIA MEMBERS were huddled in the Kauffman Stadium press box around one of their colleagues, the pool reporter who just returned from the Seattle Mariners clubhouse after asking post-game questions of Ichiro Suzuki.
Suzuki is a daily story in Japan, a national hero who won seven consecutive batting rifles there, the first position player from that country to play regularly in the major leagues and a cult figure known only as "Ichiro" in his homeland. During spring training, Mariners outfielder Al Martin wanted to gauge the ...