Ichiro changed his registered name from his real name, “Ichiro Suzuki,” to “Ichiro” in his fourth year in the NPB. “There was laughter when my name was called in spring training. It was frustrating, but I had no choice but to produce results.”
December 31, 2024
Ichiro changed his registered name from his real name, “Ichiro Suzuki,” to “Ichiro” in his fourth year in the NPB. “There was laughter when my name was called in spring training. It was frustrating, but I had no choice but to produce results.”
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Sorta like Jason Terry getting the championship trophy tattooed on his arm BEFORE winning it.
I am very much able to read this article
Chad Johnson changed his name to “Chad Eight Five”
Tom Brady kicking himself realizing he could have legally changed his name to Tommy Twinkletoes to invent another chip to have on his shoulder
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Huh. I always wondered why the baseball video games I had only listed him as “Ichiro”
Now I know. I feel enlightened
Fun fact, he didn’t wanna do it at first but the manager made another older player change his registered name to “Punch” to pressure Ichiro to go through with it
That same year, Punch was told by the manager that he won’t go much further in baseball, but if he quit right now he can succeed in TV. He quit immediately.
interesting
I don’t really get it. How did changing his name to Ichiro place pressure on him to produce results?
9 comments
Sorta like Jason Terry getting the championship trophy tattooed on his arm BEFORE winning it.
I am very much able to read this article
Chad Johnson changed his name to “Chad Eight Five”
Tom Brady kicking himself realizing he could have legally changed his name to Tommy Twinkletoes to invent another chip to have on his shoulder
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Huh. I always wondered why the baseball video games I had only listed him as “Ichiro”
Now I know. I feel enlightened
Fun fact, he didn’t wanna do it at first but the manager made another older player change his registered name to “Punch” to pressure Ichiro to go through with it
That same year, Punch was told by the manager that he won’t go much further in baseball, but if he quit right now he can succeed in TV. He quit immediately.
interesting
I don’t really get it. How did changing his name to Ichiro place pressure on him to produce results?