Birthplace of Ichiro Suzuki: Kasugai-city Aichi-ken Japan
Birthday of Ichiro Suzuki: 10/22/1973
Height of Ichiro Suzuki: 5'9"
Team:: Seattle Mariners No.51
Ichiro Suzuki belonged to theOrix Blue Wave, one of Japanese professional baseball teams, from 1992 to 2000 season. Ichiro Suzuki achieved seven consecutive batting titles in Japan. His batting average in Japan is .353 and he batted .387 in 2000 season in Japan.
Seattle Mariners paid $13.125 million to obtain Ichiro from the Orix. Ichiro is the first position player to have moved to the major league from Japan.
(Dateline: 04/03/01)
