Derek Jeter has never hit for significant power, has never been a huge RBI guy, and has finished a season with a slugging percentage over .500 only once. But he has always been able to hit—and hit and hit and hit.
Jeter is currently 178 hits away from 3,000, which means barring something horrible he is going to be the next player to join this exclusive club. This also means that he will have clinched entry into the Hall of Fame, as if that weren’t clinched already.
The question, obviously, is not whether Jeter will get to 3,000 hits, but rather, what other players will get there.
Here are ten.