CC Sabathia’s career ended abruptly. Yes, the longtime Yankees left-hander had announced months earlier his plans to retire after the 2019 season, but his final appearance did not go as ceremoniously as Derek Jeter’s or Mariano Rivera’s.

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.

The Yankees will have a pair of new representatives in the Baseball Hall of Fame in CC Sabathia and Ichiro Suzuki after the 2025 voting results.

NEW YORK — Ichiro Suzuki is all but guaranteed to become the first Japanese player in baseball's Hall of Fame, and CC Sabathia ... Major League Baseball from Japan as a 27-year-old in 2001 ...

Welcome to the Hall of Fame, Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner ... Suzuki -- let's just call him Ichiro -- grew up in Japan, of course, and was a star in the Japan Pacific League ...

The five newcomers, including Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 27, 2025, in Cooperstown, New York.

Suzuki had been to the Hall seven times before attending a news conference Thursday with fellow electees CC Sabathia and Billy ... being the first player from Japan elected to the Hall.

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected to the National ... Ichiro spent 28 years as a professional player between the United States and Japan. Over nine seasons, Ichiro hit .353 in Japan, stealing 199 career bases and amassing 1,278 ...

Ichiro Suzuki is the first Japanese-born player voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He'll be joined by CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner in the Class of 2025.

Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia were elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame on ... That didn’t stop him from compiling 3,089 hits – he had 4,286 between the majors and Japan’s top league – and winning a pair of batting titles. He began his career ...

CC Sabathia’s career ended abruptly ... The slap-hitting Suzuki was already a baseball hero in his native Japan when he joined the Seattle Mariners in 2001, but a Japanese position player ...

The trio of stars, each of whom spent part of their career in New York, will be inducted in Cooperstown on July 27.