Exactly a week after Ichiro announced his retirement after the Mariners’ second game in Tokyo, his teammate and friend Dee Gordon honored him by taking out a full-page advertisement in The Seattle Times.
“Thank you, Ichiro,” the headline reads in capital letters. The ad continues with a letter from Gordon to Ichiro.
“First of all, I want to say thank you for being a great friend to me and being my favorite player to this day,” Gordon writes.