Who is in the 4000 hit club?

The exclusive "4,000 hit club" is an informal term referring to members of an elite group of hitters: those players that have reached 4,000 hits on their careers. Currently, only two players have made the 4,000 hit club - Pete Rose and Ty Cobb. The next closest player to the club is Hank Aaron, with 3,771 hits.
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Who has 4000 hits in baseball?

Pete Rose holds the Major League record for most career hits, with 4,256. Rose and Ty Cobb, second most, are the only players with 4,000 or more career hits.
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Who is part of the 3000 hit club?

The most recent player to reach 3,000 hits is Cabrera, who did so on April 23, 2022, while playing for the Detroit Tigers; he is also the only active player with more than 3,000 hits.
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Who was the first player to get 4000 hits?

Ty Cobb did so in 1921 and became the first player in MLB history to reach 4,000 hits in 1927, ultimately finishing his career with 4,189.
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How many members are in the 3000 hit club?

They are legends of the game -- nearly all of the 33 members are Hall of Famers or soon-to-be Hall of Famers, or are locks for Cooperstown once they retire. Here is every member of the 3,000-hit club, listed in chronological order of when they got their 3,000th hit, starting with the most recent.
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The 4,000 STRIKEOUT CLUB! (Only 4 MLB pitchers EVER have reached the milestone)



Who is in the 1000 hit club?

Only nine players in MLB history have reached 1,000 hits in both the AL and NL; Dave Winfield, Frank Robinson, Vladimir Guerrero, Fred McGriff, Carlos Lee, Orlando Cabrera, Carlos Beltran, Alfonso Soriano and Albert Pujols.
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How many players have 2500 hits?

2,500 Hits[edit]

It is the midway point between a very good career 2,000 hit career and greatness in the 3,000 hit club. When a player reaches 2,500 hits at a relatively young age; the countdown to 3,000 begins. As of August 2015, there have been 98 players who have reached 2,500 hits in their career.
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Who had 7 hits in one game?

In a 22-0 shellacking of the Chicago Cubs that day, Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Rennie Stennett would record a hit in all seven of his at-bats – becoming the first and to date the only modern-era player to accomplish this in a nine-inning game.
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Who got to 3000 hits the fastest?

Nap Lajoie — It took Lajoie 2,237 games to reach 3,000, and he did it playing for his namesake, the Cleveland Naps, on Sept. 27, 1914.
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Who is the closest to 3000 hits?

Who Will be the Next Active MLB Player to Collect His 3,000th Career Hit?
  • Robinson Cano (Padres)-2,635 Career Hits.
  • Yadier Molina (Cardinals)-2,141 Career Hits.
  • Joey Votto (Reds)-2,072 Career Hits.
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How many players have 700 home runs?

Of the more than 20,000 players who have participated in an MLB game, Pujols joined Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth as one of only four AL/NL players to have reached 700 homers. Here is a quick look at that short list of legends. No player went from 600 to 700 home runs quicker than Bonds.
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Who hit 600 home runs in MLB?

Alex Rodriguez (696), Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey Jr. (630), Jim Thome (612), and Sammy Sosa (609) are the only other players to have hit 600 or more. Listed are all Major League Baseball players with 223 or more home runs hit during official regular-season games (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games).
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How many players have 3000 hits 600 hrs?

And the combination of those feats puts Pujols, 38, in the company of Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Alex Rodriguez as the only players in history with 600 home runs and 3,000 hits.
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Did Ichiro get 4000 hits?

Compiled on two continents and two different leagues, Suzuki's 4,000 hits — a total that includes 1,278 hits in Nippon Professional Baseball and another 2,722 in Major League Baseball — is an achievement as singular as the wiry, slap-hitting international superstar himself.
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Who has a 1000 batting average?

Paciorek is rare among Major League Baseball players in having a perfect batting average of 1.000. He is the only player to achieve this distinction with more than two turns at-bat. His two brothers, Jim Paciorek and Tom Paciorek, also played in the Major Leagues.
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Who has the most hits ever?

As of November 2022, the major league baseball (MLB) player, Pete Rose, tops the ranking of all-time hits leaders with 4,256 hits throughout his career. Rose is followed within this ranking by Ty Cobb and Hank Aaron who have amassed 4,189 hits and 3,771 hits respectively.
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What is the longest hit ever?

Dave Kingman, 530 Feet (1976)

Dave Kingman hit one entirely out of Wrigley Field on April 14, 1976. That much is known. The exact distance, however, remains disputed. According to William Jenkinson, researchers estimated the fabled fly ball at 573 feet, and the New York Times originally reported a 630-foot flight.
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What is the fastest hit ever?

Stanton hit a 121.7 mph home run in 2018 against the Texas Rangers, which remains the hardest-hit home run to this day. He also managed a 121.3 mph home run against the Washington Nationals in 2020. Not to be outdone, Judge hit a 121.1 mph home run against the Orioles in 2017 when he was a rookie.
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What is longest home run ever hit?

What is the longest home run of all time? Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this ball an astonishing 582 FEET! The media could not be played.
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How rare is a 5 hit game?

In addition to some great and really good players we also have some good players who didn't walk much. On the opposite end of the spectrum, of the 47 players who have 2500 or more hits since 1956, only Barry Bonds and Louis Gonzalez have never had a 5 hit game.
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What is the longest no hitter?

After nearly 70 years, they still talk about that game in Winchester. It was no ordinary no-hitter. It went 17 innings, a feat still unchallenged as the longest no-hit game in professional baseball history.
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Has anyone struck 6 times in a game?

Major league players with six strikeouts in a game

Only eight players have had six strikeouts in one game, as listed in the following table. All eight instances occurred in games that were completed in extra innings; the record for strikeouts in a nine-inning game is five.
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Who is the best hitter ever?

1. Ty Cobb. The Georgia Peach's career batting average over his 24 seasons in baseball is the highest in major league history. Plus, historians have proven he wasn't the worst human being to ever play the game as early biographies reported.
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Who is the fastest player to 2000 hits?

Al Simmons achieved 2,000 hits faster than anyone in the 20th Century, as he reached the mark in 1,390 games.
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Who is the best switch hitter ever?

Mickey Mantle as the greatest switch-hitter of all time is a no-brainer. One of the greatest baseball players of all time, Mantle had 536 home runs, was a perennial MVP candidate and three-time winner, and is rightfully a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
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