I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highe… — Ichiro Suzuki

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

Ichiro SuzukiAthlete · Japanese · b. 1973

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