3,999 hits

[gotbeer]

The incomparable Ichiro's 3,999 hits

 

Pretty impressive company.

 

 

There are only two players who reached the 4,000-hit mark in major league history: Pete Rose and Ty Cobb. According to various sources, only five players had 4,000 hits in the majors and minors combined: Rose, Cobb, Hank Aaron, Stan Musial and Jigger Statz (a little known player because 3,356 of his hits were in the old Pacific Coast League). 

 

 

[tdawg87]

Shouldn't this have an asterisk?

[WallyWorld]

Shouldn't this have an asterisk?

 

racist!

[sneaky_flute]

That's pretty impressive, but he needs to retire soon. He's annoying to watch now. 

[steveuk]

Jigger Statz. What a great name!

[happybat4]

I don't think it should have an asterisk. Competition in Japan is pretty high, higher when he played there and they only had 130 game seasons when he played. If he started his career here, I think he would be about the same, if not farther ahead.

[gotbeer]

Jigger Statz. What a great name!

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/statzji01.shtml

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigger_Statz

 

 

Statz also played 18 minor league seasons, all of them for the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League. 

Statz had a distinguished career in the Pacific Coast League. He holds the PCL records for games played (2790), hits (3356), doubles (597), triples (136), and runs scored (1996). His career PCL batting average was .315.^[2] 

[happybat4]

Jigger Statz had over 3,000 hits for the Los Angeles Angels by the way

[fan_since79]

Jigger had some decent years in the majors, too. In 1923 he managed 70 RBI for the Cubs. He finished with a lifetime BA of .285 in 683 ML games.

[Jobu]

Rex Hudler used to lose his shit whenever Physioc combined Ichiro's big league hits with his NPB.