Ichiro Suzuki Elected To Baseball Hall Of Fame

     Former Miami Marlins outfielder Ichiro Suzuki was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday. He received 99.7% of the votes from the Baseball Writers Association of America. Ichiro will be inducted on July 27 in Cooperstown, New York. 

     Ichiro played with the Marlins franchise from 2015 to 2017. He collected his 3,000th base hit with a triple when Miami visited the Colorado Rockies.

     He began his Major League Baseball career with the Seattle Mariners in 2001 at the age of 26. Ichiro won the American League Most Valuable Player Award and Rookie of the Year Award that season. He was the seventh player in MLB history with at least 3,000 base hits and 500 stolen bases.