Could Ichiro become all-time hits leader, with a Japan asterisk?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) There have been just over 500 instances in baseball history (514, to be exact) of a player getting 200 hits in a season. Only one player has done it for 10 years in a row: Ichiro Suzuki, who accomplished the feat Thursday in Toronto. How big an accomplishment is this? Let’s go to the stats: • Ichiro has done something that Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Ted Williams, Pete Rose, Tony Gwynn and Wade Boggs never achieved. • Only Rose had 10 or more seasons of 200 hits. He could pass Rose next season. The all-time hits leader also had 10 200-hit seasons. Rose never did it more than three years in a row. • Only 13 times has a Mariners player had 200 or more hits in a season. Ichiro has 10 of those seasons. • If you count his seven seasons in Japan, Ichiro has 3,508 hits. Th
