2002 Ichiro Suzuki Original Photo Seattle Mariners Hits The Long Ball #2

Ichiro Suzuki, commonly known as Ichiro, is a former professional baseball player from Japan who had an outstanding career in both the Japanese and Major League Baseball (MLB). Born on October 22, 1973, in Kasugai, Aichi, Japan, Ichiro is widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of his generation.Ichiro finished his second year in American baseball with 208 total hits, making him the first Mariners player ever with two consecutive seasons of 200+ hits. He got off to a hot start in 2002, but a late-season slump drove his batting average down to.321, 29 points below his batting average as a rookie. He was the fifth player in MLB history to start a career with two 200-hit seasons. Ichiro finished the season second in the AL in hits, fourth in batting average, and fourth in steals. Ichiro led the major league All-Star balloting for the second straight year. Although the Mariners had a 93-69 record, that was good for only a third-place finish in the competitive AL West.Offered is an original photo that measures 4" x 6" in size from his second second season in the Major Leagues taken by photographer, Mel Bailey on Kodak paper.Mel sent some of his photos out to labs (which would have date stamped); while others he developed in his own dark room.The photographs that he personally developed did not have date stamps. As of this listing, PSA will not grade modern era photos as TYPE 1 without any dated markings; however, we can assure you that this was developed on period Kodak paper and was in the same files of Ichiro photos that Mel kept of Ichiro (with and without dated stamps).This is a killer shot of Ichiro finishing off his swing.*NOTE* the third image shows an enhanced image with the markings - the actually back of the photo is not that dark.