other baseball player. He demonstrated this attribute by throwing a canon from his right field position to third base throwing out Oakland’s,
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Ichiro’s rookie year in the Major’s with Seattle turned out to be Ichiro’s golden moment. It was like he had dreamt of as a child and what he longed for during those long days of intense training with his father, training with his father according to Ichiro “may have been fun for my father but those days were not fun for me.” He accumulated during his rookie season a 242 hitting streak,
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Ichiro finished his second Major League season with 208 hits,
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SEGUIN Hockey Jerseys,085. With the 2009 season came a lot of firsts for this remarkable Japanese player including his first ever walk off home run and it marks the first of an uncharacteristic ejection from a baseball game. The ejection came following a strikeout call that Ichiro adamantly protested by drawing a line for the umpire indicating the outside of the plate. Ichiro however again led the Major leagues in hits this season with 225.
For most however it is not Ichiro’s game playing ability, is not the record breaking hits or amazing stamina for stealing, it is Ichiro himself. His playing style has been referred to as being unlike any others in the league and it will be like that forever. Ichiro’s work ethics are held in the highest regard with his teammates and ball club, arriving early for practice and leaving last. Previous Yankee’s manager Joe Torre is said to have stressed to his pitchers the importance of not letting Ichiro beat them saying “Do not let Ichiro beat you,
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