Dick Allen, Dave Parker, CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki and Billy Wagner will achieve baseball immorality on Sunday when they are inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Their achievements on the field show the honor is well-deserved.

Ichiro Suzuki's 2025 election to the Baseball Hall of Fame makes him the first Japanese-born player to be enshrined in Cooperstown.

Nor was it a surprise that being in the place he called “a sacred baseball land” would bring out his best oratory.