Ty Cobb was the youngest and fastest player to achieve 1000 hits, 2000 hits, 3000 hits, and 4000 hits. He was 34 years 243 days old when he collected his 3000th hit, in his 2135th game.
Ichiro collected his 3000 career hit sometime in the summer of 2008, in approximately his 2171st game, when he was about 34 years 282 days old. A close second-fastest to Cobb. At his current MLB pace it will take Ichiro 2334 games to reach 3000, which would make him the 7th fastest to 3000 MLB hits.
This past Saturday Ichiro scored the 1,968th run of his career, breaking Sadaharu Oh's record for most runs by a player from Japan (actually Oh was born in Korea). Ichiro is 13 away from 500 stolen bases. He stole 15 bases last year in 143 games. He is 144 hits away from 3000 in his MLB career and only 122 away from Pete Rose's record 4256.
ARod is currently only 45 hits away from 3000. His next home run will tie him with Willie Mays and earn Rodriguez a six million dollar bonus. Mays only earned $1.9 million in his entire career.
The fastest to 3000 hits:
games/career hits/player
2135 4189 Ty Cobb
2171 4136 Ichiro Suzuki career (Japan & MLB)
2223 2858 Ichiro Suzuki MLB current
2224 3243 Nap Lajoie
2284 3141 Tony Gwynn (fastest in NL)
2301 3630 Stan Musial (off Moe Drabowsky)
2314 3152 Paul Waner
2332 3420 Honus Wagner
2341 3514 Tris Speaker
2362 3465 Derek Jeter
2370 4256 Pete Rose
2411 3319 Paul Molitor
2417 3053 Rod Carew
2430 3010 Wade Boggs
2433 3000 Roberto Clemente
2480 3771 Hank Aaron (youngest in NL)
2505 3315 Eddie Collins
2559 3154 George Brett
2586 2955 Alex Rodriguez current
2629 3023 Lou Brock
2639 3283 Willie Mays
2708 3142 Robin Yount
2764 3255 Eddie Murray
2781 3060 Craig Biggio
2800 3184 Cal Ripken Jr
2809 3020 Rafael Palmeiro
2825 3007 Al Kaline
2840 3110 Dave Winfield
2848 3419 Carl Yastremski
2979 3055 Rickey Henderson
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