Ichiro Suzuki Reaches 3000 Hits,

Again Breaking Ground for

Japanese Players

[TheNewYorkTimes

By DAVID WALDSTEIN

AUGUST 7.2016]←

Ichiro Suzuki, the baseball pioneer

who proved 15 years ago that

Japanese Hitters could succeed

in Major League Baseball,

reached a hallowed mil estone Sunday

when he became the 30th Player to

compile 3000 hits