Someone made a big mistake, and we may never know who was the lone person not to vote for Ichiro Suzuki to be the second unanimous selection into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Only the New York Yankees’ prolific closer, Mariano Rivera, received 100 percent of the votes in 2022 on his first year of eligibility.
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