On June 15, 2016, former Yankee and current Miami Marlins outfielder Ichiro Suzuki had two hits, surpassing 4,256 career hits which is the mark left by the one and only “Hit King,” Pete Rose.
Despite Ichiro being three years younger, it has taken them the roughly the same amount of time (24 seasons) to reach the benchmark of 4,256 hits. There’s just one thing to note: Ichiro has 2,979 hits in Major League Baseball (MLB), adding in 1,278 hits from his days in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), where all of Rose’s 4,256 hits came as a player in the MLB.