With Ichiro officially joining baseball’s most elite fraternity, Hawaii’s baseball community takes pride in knowing that one of the sport’s all-time greats once dug his cleats into the ...

Samson said Ichiro was the only player he met who asked for a sample Marlins jersey beforehand. He wanted to make sure his cleats matched. “I knew greatness was upon us,’’ Samson texted.

Ichiro was known to steal a few bags, finishing with over 500 stolen bases. By the time he hung up his cleats, Ichiro was a 10X All-Star, 10X Gold Glove winner, and 2X batting champion.