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Dispatch #10: Where You Find It
Dispatch #10: Where You Find It

In baseball, as in life, comfort and hope are often small and fleeting. And yet, that’s where the appeal lies.

Dispatch #9: I Shall Not Pass This Way Again
Dispatch #9: I Shall Not Pass This Way Again

Another season is gently, inevitably, drawing to a close.

Dispatch #8: Relics
Dispatch #8: Relics

What we accrue – baseball caps, ticket stubs, old gloves – both chronicles and illuminates our personal experiences with the game.

Dispatch #7: ICHIRO SUZUKI, THE STAR OF BASEBALL
Dispatch #7: ICHIRO SUZUKI, THE STAR OF BASEBALL

What one inactive fansite says about the passing of time in the digital age.

Dispatch #6: The gray area
Dispatch #6: The gray area

The Steroid Era laid bare certain ugly truths about ourselves which we have not yet confronted.

Dispatch #5: American Berserk
Dispatch #5: American Berserk

The home run’s cultural imprint continues to grow.

Dispatch #4: Gradually, and then all of a sudden
Dispatch #4: Gradually, and then all of a sudden

Ichiro left as he began, inscrutably, gracefully, and leaving open the possibility for more.

Dispatch #3: The sense of an ending
Dispatch #3: The sense of an ending

Thanks to the return of a healthy Ben Gamel and the emergence of Guillermo Heredia, Ichiro’s spot on Seattle’s roster is now in danger.

Dispatch #2: The weight of expectation
Dispatch #2: The weight of expectation

For decades, Ichiro and other Japanese ballplayers have defied criticism and ethno-national sentiment to forge successful professional careers in the United States. 

Dispatch #1: A handful of dirt
Dispatch #1: A handful of dirt

After a six-season interlude, Ichiro is back where he belongs, with the Seattle Mariners.

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Interactive timeline of Ichiro's career

 Significant events that have occurred in the 18 years Ichiro's been playing professional baseball in the United States.

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#6 – Steroids and American innocence

Rethinking baseball’s Steroid Era.

#5 – Like Thor wielding his hammer

On the home run's effect on baseball and American culture.

#4 - Eulogy

Andrew Forbes reads his recent dispatch, “Gradually, then all of a sudden.”

#3 - We need to extinguish that fire within them.

Time may have finally caught up to baseball’s Gilgamesh, Ichiro Suzuki.

#2 – The Question We Have To Ask Ourselves

Why are we always surprised by the successes of Japanese ballplayers?

#1 – Opening Day

Contributor Andrew Forbes discusses his new column, Go! Go! Ichiro!, and makes his pennant picks.

 

images of ichiro: keith allison