"All the world's a stage," a well-known English playwright declared in "As You Like It," adding: "And all the men and women merely players . . . "
Crisp, time-honored words that yet fall short of an even keener truth -- which is that some of us are much better players than others.
And at the end of this hot first summer of the new millennium, it seems the finest player of all is Ichiro Suzuki.