Thanks for that!
I arrived in Japan just as Ichiro arrived in the US. I found it borderline ridiculous the amount of coverage one man got, and I knew nothing of baseball. Over the years though, gained a lot of respect for Ichiro as he seemed, to my ignorant eyes, to be really very very good at...
I'm afraid I don't follow him at all (only baseball I do take a passing interest in is the fortunes of Hiroshima Carp) but there is no way you could not know who he is here.
Is he as good as Ichiro was?