Hits per Season Record
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Before Ichiro's incredible 210 hit year, The Osaka Tiger's Fujimura Fumio set the record of 191 hits in the 1950 season, that record still standing as the Central League record. When Fujimura set the record in 1950, he was breaking his own record of 187 that he set the previous year (1949), the final year of the Single League era. (Ohsawa Kiyoshi also broke the 1949 record in 1950 with 189 hits, but was below Fujimura that year.)
There's about 6 games left in their season. [Link - Carp official site, October schedule - in Japanese]
Taking the latest "Record Book," the top 10 seasonal hits records are:
Player (Team) Hits Year
1. Ichiro (Orix) 210 1994 (PL record)
2. Ogasawara (Nippon Ham) 195 2001
3. Ichiro (Orix) 193 1996
3. Matsui (Seibu) 193 2002
5. Rose (Yokohama) 192 1999 (CL record)
6. Fujimura (Osaka) 191 1950
6. Shimizu (Giants) 191 2002
8. Ohsawa (Taiyo) 189 1950
8. Ramirez (Yakult) 189 2003
8. Tani (Orix) 189 2003
Wow! Half of the top ten have been over the last three years (before this season). Eight of the ten since 1994. I didn't realized that before.
Thanks for proding me to look up the more recent records. They have changed significantly!
Which more or less equates with what he's done this year in the majors.
Do you mean, there were more games played per season or less games played per season before?
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