Baseball: Ichiro to throw out ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day

Newly elected Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki will throw the ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day for his former team, the Seattle Mariners, in March, the club said Monday.The 51-year-old former outfielder, elected to the Hall with 393 votes -- one shy of unanimous -- on Jan. 21, will take the mound at Seattle's T-Mobile Park on March 27 when the Mariners play the Athletics, the team he faced in both his MLB debut in April 2001 and the final game of his career in March 2019.Currently the special assistant to the chairman and an instructor at the Mariners, Ichiro, widely k…READ FULL ARTICLE