Derek Jeter, Sadaharu Oh and Hideki Matsui were among many to offer their praises Tuesday after former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki became the first Asian player elected to the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball's all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) -- more even than Pete Rose's 4,256. He broke George Sisler's single-season hits mark of 257 in 2004. The new mark is 262.

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2025. The final results were unveiled Tuesday

It’s tempting to say Ichiro Suzuki, with his detached sense of cool, record-breaking hitting prowess and 28 seasons of excellence on both sides of the globe, was made for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Probably more accurate to say the Hall of Fame was made for him.

In the bottom of the eighth inning of the April 15, 2001, game between the Oakland A's and visiting Seattle Mariners ... more conventional hitters making the leap -- hitters like Hideki Matsui, Seiya Suzuki, and, yes, Ohtani -- did so with fewer barriers ...

In the bottom of the eighth inning of the April 15, 2001, game between the Oakland A's and visiting Seattle Mariners ... more conventional hitters making the leap -- hitters like Hideki Matsui, Seiya Suzuki, and, yes, Ohtani -- did so with fewer barriers ...

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he's much more than that in Japan. Back home, he's a wellspring of national pride.

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he’s much more than that in Japan. Back home, he’s a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the Pacific buoyed the nation as Japan’s economy sputtered through the so-called lost decades of the 1990s and into the 2000s.

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he is much more than that at home in Japan. Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride — like Shohei Ohtani now —

The Seattle Mariners minor league system has been one of the most successful ones in the league top-to-bottom over the last several seasons. The Mariners international scouting department pulled ...

Expected to be the first Japanese player elected to the Cooperstown on Tuesday, Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride and his fame across the Pacific when he joined MLB was therapeutic for his

Iwakuma played 11 NPB seasons between the Kintetsu Buffaloes and the Rakuten Golden Eagles before joining the Mariners in 2012 ... his second consecutive Classic MVP Award. Kaz Matsui (no relation to Hideki) hit .291 over nine seasons with the Seibu ...