Willie Keeler had 200 hits in eight Major League Baseball seasons. On Sunday, Ichiro Suzuki broke Keeler’s record. For the ninth straight season, Ichiro has at least 200 hits.
Ichiro, who joined the Seattle Marines from the Japanese leagues in 2001, has finished with at least 206 hits in his first eight seasons. This year, he got his 200th hit against the Texas Rangers and has time to add a handful more before the end of the 2009 baseball season.
The 35-year-old from Kadugai, Japan is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, this year has been one of his better …read more

Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners has been extremely durable in his Major League Baseball career. However, to begin his 2009 campaign, Ichiro was forced to the disabled list due to a bleeding ulcer. Because of the ulcer, Ichiro was suffering from an extreme amount of fatigue. It was Ichiro’s first time on the disabled list in his career.
Although Ichiro didn’t want to go onto the disabled list, the Mariners made the move to make sure that he could get in as much rest as possible and to treat the bleeding ulcer carefully. He had spent a large amount of …read more

Fifteen innings of pretty good ball for the American League versus National League All-Stars resulted in sleep loss for the East Coast and the 12th consecutive win for the AL (except for that 2002 tie).
Here are five reasons why the AL came up with a victory yet again:
 1. Ichiro Suzuki’s pre-game F-Bombs. Move over, Bobby Knight. The Seattle Mariners‘ perpetual All-Star has a nifty peptalk ritual for his AL teammates every year.
2. Florida Marlins second baseman and probable never-again All-Star Dan Uggla set—wait for it, this one’s nice and corny—an Ugg-ly record by committing 3 errors in the game.
3. The NL probably isn’t quite accustomed …read more