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...street outside club Asylum, ragga (a rap-influenced form of reggae) booms out of parked cars. Young Jamaican men with white scarves tied around their heads vibrate to the music, thrusting their hips at passing Suzuki Samurais. The youths have now begun to slow up traffic, and police close in on them like parentheses. Is a confrontation brewing? One young reveler reaches into his car and turns up his stereo. The voice of Elephant Man, the latest local ragga star, blares out, heavy with attitude and thick with patois: "Badman nah run from police inna shootout/Whole crew a government...
...ICHIRO SUZUKI First ever rookie to top All-Star voting. Another steal for Japan's homegrown hero...
...record at 63-24, are sending eight players, a full quarter of the squad and the most since the 1960 Pirates. Seattle fans, voting early and often, elected four of them - first baseman John Olerud, second baseman Bret Boone, designated hitter Edgar Martinez and straight-from-Japan outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, who received the most votes of any player - to start...
...April, Suzuki came up to bat against Shigetoshi Hasegawa, the Anaheim Angels reliever who once was a teammate of Suzuki's for the Orix Blue Wave. It was the first time an Asian hitter had faced an Asian pitcher in American ball. What happened was a less-than-ringing endorsement for Adjustment, Hasegawa's book about adapting to life and baseball in the U.S. Suzuki slapped the first pitch he saw for a single. "I know he wrote a book, but I haven't read it," Suzuki later said...
...argued that Wade Boggs, George Brett and Tony Gwynn were the three best hitters for average of the past two decades. They hit safely in 39 out of 41 games four times in their combined 59 seasons. Suzuki began his major league career with such a run?while playing in unfamiliar stadiums in an unfamiliar country and while dealing with an unfamiliar language and eating unfamiliar foods. "He's a legitimate hitter, no question," says Yankees manager Joe Torre. "I don't think you can pitch him one way. You can go in and out, up and down...