At the Plate with...Ichiro

When Ichiro Suzuki was three years old, his father introduced him to baseball. For seventeen years Ichiro played the sport he loved in his home country of Japan. He became not only that country's greatest baseball player, but one of its biggest celebrities in recent history. Then, in 2000, he left Japan to join the Seattle Mariners. Would Ichiro be able to succeed in the world's most competitive baseball league? Critics said no, that the Japanese ball-player was too short, too skinny, and too weak to make it in America's majors. It was up to Ichiro to prove them wrong. He did so time and again, leading his team through its best season ever in his rookie year. This exciting biography traces the life of one of baseball's rising stars. For more information on the Matt Christopher Sports Bio Bookshelf, please turn to the last pages of this book. Book jacket.

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