Baseball-Ichiro joins MLB's 3,000-hit club
Aug 7 (Reuters) - Japanese outfielder Ichiro Suzuki of the Miami Marlins on Sunday became the 30th Major League Baseball player with 3,000 career hits.
Ichiro, who in 2001 became the first Japanese position player in MLB history, joins Roberto Clemente (Puerto Rico), Rod Carew (Panama) and Rafael Palmeiro (Cuba) as the only members of the 3,000-hit club born outside the United States. (Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Frank Pingue)
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