Welcome to Cooperstown, Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner, Dick Allen and Dave Parker! Those five legends were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, the largest class since 2022. Suzuki leads the way, and Mike Axisa summarized a peerless career:

Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners made history once again, this time with a speech that had the crowd laughing and chanting his name. On Sunday, he became the first player born in Japan to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.