Baseball: "Don't take baseball, daily life for granted," Ichiro says

Former major league star Ichiro Suzuki said Friday that by putting pro baseball in the United States and Japan on hold, the current coronavirus pandemic has made him realize ballplayers cannot take their game for granted.Speaking to Kyodo News on the anniversary of his retirement, Suzuki, now an instructor for the Seattle Mariners, opened up about the pandemic's impact."People expect to have baseball in the United States. But we suddenly lost something we have always taken for granted," he said.Suzuki opened his professional career in 1992 with the Orix Blue Wave, currently the Orix Buffalo…READ FULL ARTICLE