Ichirō Suzuki

Suzuki in 2010, photo by Guemes007/Bigstock.com

Place of Birth: Nishikasugai-gun, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Date of Birth: 22 October, 1973

Ethnicity: Japanese

Ichirō Suzuki (鈴木 一朗, Suzuki Ichirō) is a Japanese professional baseball player. An outfielder, he played for Orix BlueWave, in Japan; the Seattle Mariners, the New York Yankees, and the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB), for a total of twenty eight professional seasons. He is also known simply as Ichirō (イチロー, Ichirō).

His father is Nobuyuki Suzuki. He was raised in Toyoyama, a town outside Nagoya. Ichirō is married to television announcer Yumiko Fukushima, of TBS TV.