{"id":791,"date":"2011-07-08T19:38:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T00:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=791"},"modified":"2021-05-06T05:54:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T10:54:41","slug":"3000-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"3000 hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/desmond.yfrog.com\/Himg210\/scaled.php?tn=0&amp;server=210&amp;filename=b6cj.jpg&amp;xsize=640&amp;ysize=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-seven major league players have at least 3,000 hits in their career. Over 100 years of Major League Baseball, only 27 players have reached this plateau. It is a major milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Derek Jeter is two hits away from joining this group. So, for this post, I am going to assume he also has 3,000.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12 have batted left-handed.<\/li>\n<li>14 have batted right-handed.<\/li>\n<li>2 have been switch hitters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To achieve 3,000 hits, a player must average 200 hits a season for 15 years. That is an amazing level of\u00a0consistency\u00a0over a long period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Nine players have achieved all their hits with one team:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stan Musial &#8211; Cardinals.<\/li>\n<li>Carl Yastrzemski &#8211; Red Sox.<\/li>\n<li>Cal Ripken &#8211; Orioles.<\/li>\n<li>George Brett &#8211; Royals.<\/li>\n<li>Robin Yount &#8211; Brewers.<\/li>\n<li>Tony Gwynn &#8211; Padres.<\/li>\n<li>Craig Biggio &#8211; Astros.<\/li>\n<li>Roberto Clemente &#8211; Pirates.<\/li>\n<li>Derek Jeter &#8211; Yankees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two players have over 4,000 hits. Ty Cobb, who played in the early decades of the 20th century and Pete Rose.<\/p>\n<p>Roberto Clemente ended his career with exactly 3,000 hits. \u00a0He died in a plane crash during the off-season. He was part of an effort to bring supplies to earthquake victims in\u00a0Nicaragua. What a class act.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the the 28 men who have achieved 3,000 hits in a career. Quite an accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Twenty-seven major league players have at least 3,000 hits in their career. Over 100 years of Major League Baseball, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=791\" class=\"more-link\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}