“Skepticism is a good word,” said Larry Stone, the retired national baseball writer for the Seattle Times who covered Ichiro’s entire tenure with the Mariners. Skeptics thought Major League ...

In the bottom of the eighth inning of the April 11, 2001, game between the Oakland A's and visiting Seattle Mariners ... Ichiro and his first manager, Lou Piniella, during his very first spring ...

Henderson said happily, as the Mariners ... Piniella retorted with some friendly sarcasm. "You couldn't move before." Henderson "was the only one," said Cameron, "who could talk s--- to Lou." ...

Late in Rickey Henderson's career, his Seattle Mariners teammate Mike Cameron would ... on and concentrate on the next pitch. Henderson was ejected 11 times over his long career, and nine of ...

Late in Rickey Henderson's career, his Seattle Mariners teammate ... "They should be good," Piniella retorted with some friendly sarcasm. "You couldn't move before." Henderson "was the only one," said ...

There was skepticism in his own first spring training camp with the now famous story of Seattle Mariners manager Lou Piniella, exasperated after watching the left-handed hitter hit soft grounder ...