Ichiro is the first player since 1900 to have 230 or more hits in three different seasons. He had 242 hits in 2001, 262 in 2004 and has 234 this season. Freddy Lindstrom (1928, 1930) and Rogers Hornsby (1921-22) were the only players who’d reached 230 hits in a season more than once in the modern era. — Seattle P-I