To find someone most like Ichiro, you must go all the way back to 1872, when Wee Willie Keeler was born. (Actually, even 5'4" Wee Willie outslugged him.) Ichiro was, in every sense of the phrase ...
No other player in MLB history had more than six total seasons reaching each of those marks in their MLB careers (Ty Cobb, Willie Keeler). Ichiro spent his first 12 seasons with the Mariners ...