I’m not sure when it began. It was some time after Ichiro joined the front office as Special Assistant to the Chairman. We all noticed Ichiro racing out from the clubhouse after a Mariners victory from the very beginning. But what began as a race to get to the front of the line of high fives quickly morphed into something else. At some point during the season, when he reached the top of the mound, Ichiro started bringing his arms to his chest, then lift his right leg up, and pause in a rough imitation of the balance point in Marco Gonzales’s windup.
40 in 40: Marco Gonzales
