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Farewell, 51: Remembering Ichiro’s iconic career though its best moments — and best photographs

The Seattle Times | March 21, 2019

It started all the way back in 1992. The start of an unprecedented 28-year-long professional baseball career for a man that would eventually become a baseball legend. That career came to an end Thursday.

We take a look back at the sure-to-be Hall of Fame career of one of baseball’s unique icons, arguably its global face for his decade-long prime in Seattle.

It started in Japan, in 1992, with the Orix BlueWave.

Ichiro Suzuki, in his fourth pro season, blasts a homer in the top of the 10th inning Oct. 19, 1996, at the Tokyo Dome to lift the Orix BlueWave to a 4-3 victory over the Yomiuri Giants. He earned his third consecutive Pacific League MVP, batting .356 with 16 home runs, 104 runs scored and 84 driven in, solidifying the star power he was about to bring to the States. (Koji Sasahara / The Associated Press)
Ichiro Suzuki, in his fourth pro season, blasts a homer in the top of the 10th inning Oct. 19, 1996, at the Tokyo Dome to lift the Orix BlueWave to a 4-3 victory over the Yomiuri Giants.
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