Tuesday,  July 24, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 010 • 26 of 28 •  Other Editions

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Ichiro Suzuki singles 1st time up with Yankees in 4-1 win over former Mariners teammates

• SEATTLE (AP) -- Ichiro Suzuki bowed twice to the fans and promptly smacked a single to center.
• Sayonara, Seattle. Hello, Yankees.
• Suzuki switched teams at Safeco Field after a momentous trade and singled his first time up with New York during its 4-1 victory over the Mariners on Monday night.
• "Obviously, it looks different being over here," Suzuki said through a translator. "I was worried about my first at-bat. I was really relieved with the standing ovation. It was a special day today."
• In a surprising deal about 3½ hours before the game, Seattle sent Suzuki to the

Yankees for a pair of young pitchers. After leaving the only major league team he'd ever played for, the 10-time All-Star held an emotional news conference and then joined his new teammates in the other clubhouse.
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Today in History
The Associated Press

• Today is Tuesday, July 24, the 206th day of 2012. There are 160 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 24, 1862, Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, and the first to have been born a U.S. citizen, died at age 79 in Kinderhook, N.Y., the town where he was born in 1782.
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• On this date:
• In 1783, Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar (see-MOHN' boh-LEE'-vahr) was born in Caracas.
• In 1847, Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah.
• In 1866, Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.
• In 1911, Yale University history professor Hiram Bingham III found the "Lost City

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