St. Paul, Nebraska, is a relatively small city with a population of around 2,500. It was the summer of 2015. While on a road trip across the United States, I visited the "Museum of Nebraska Major League Baseball" located in this small city. You might be wondering why a city of only 2,500 people would have a museum with such an ambitious name; after all, one would normally expect a museum with a title like that to be in a major city. But there is a perfectly good reason for i

My initial interest in 3,000 career hits in Major League Baseball was sparked by Stan Musial (who died in 2013 at the age of 92). My interest in 3,000 career hits grew stronger, and I became interested in their relationship to single-year hits, thanks to Al Simmons (who died in 1956 at the age of 54). And with the move of our Japanese hero, Ichiro, to Major League Baseball, my interest in the relationship between 3,000 career hits and single-year hits increased even further.