Another record, one I deemed less likely to fall, has just been tied moments ago:
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Originally Posted by jtg33
Single-Season Hits: 257, by George Sisler (1920)
Sisler set this record playing with the St. Louis Browns (now the Orioles), and it still stands as the highest single-season total in major league history. I don’t think this record will be broken. Good hitters get to 100 hits very frequently. Some great hitters get to – or very close to - 200 hits. The thing is, 200 hits is an incredibly difficult total to reach. Virtually no one has the ability to do that these days, so it is just about untouchable.
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It came in the first inning of a game between Texas and Seattle, with Ichiro Suzuki at the plate. A soft liner off his bat went over the third baseman's glove and into shallow left field, giving Ichiro the tie with Sisler at 257 hits in a single season, among chants of "I-chi-ro! I-chi-ro!" from the crowd. He still has almost three full games to break a record that has stood for 84 years.