200 x 10

Ichiro Suzuki collected his 200th hit of the season yesterday in Toronto. He's the only American League player to have ten 200-hit seasons and they all came in his first 10 big league seasons. Only Pete Rose has ten 200-hit seasons to his credit.
It's funny, Kevin Wheeler, our Turf baseball analyst from KMOX radio in St. Louis, and I have argued about Ichiro on the show a few times.
Wheeler thinks that Ichiro is selfish and should be hitting third in the Mariners lineup but he chooses not to.
I say, I don't care how selfish a player is, if he gets 200 knocks a year I want him on my team. Pete Rose was pretty selfish in that regard too. Instead of selfish, how about driven to get base hits?
Whether or not you like Ichiro, you have to agree he's a pretty special player and he'll be the first Japanese born player inducted in the the Hall of Fame. Unless Hideki Irabu beats him to it!