COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — He had walked through these massive red doors before — seven times before. But this was different.
This was visit No. 8, on a frosty, 14-degree Thursday morning in January. This time, Ichiro Suzuki was walking through these doors, of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, as one of the legends.
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“This is my eighth time here in the Hall of Fame — and what an honor it is for me to be here as a Hall of Famer,” said the only man in history who can say he slashed 4,367 hits in the two greatest leagues on Earth, first in Japan’s Pacific League, then in Major League
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