NAGOYA, Japan -- Look, over here is Ichiro's childhood desk, complete with a mannequin of a 12-year-old Ichiro sitting in a chair and working on an abacus. Over there in the corner is the bicycle ...

Ichiro had 210 hits in 1994, breaking what had been the record at the time. It was the first time in the history of Japanese professional baseball for a player to log more than 200 hits per season.