How many MLB players have 3000 hits and 500 home runs?

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• Who has the most hits in MLB history?
• Question: How many baseball players have 3000 hits and 500 home runs?
• How many baseball players have 3000 hits and 600 home runs?
• Closest active players
• What MLB player is closest to 3000 hits?
• Who are the 6 players with 3000 hits and 500 home runs?
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I remember walking home wearing my baseball glove, a glove I still have to this day. My dad put his arm around me and spoke softly to me, telling me he was sorry it had worked out that way. In my memory we went home and watched the game as Yaz parked his 400th. He might not have hit it that day...I honestly don't remember. What sticks with me is how good it felt to have my dad's arm around me. Further narrowing down Cabrera's company, he will become the seventh player to get to 3,000 hits while also raking 500 home runs.

A first-ballot Hall of Famer, Aaron hit 30 homers in a season 15 times, topped the .300 mark 14 times and had three seasons with 200 or more hits. Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s home run record in 1974 and held the title of baseball’s home run king until 2007. His 755 dingers are the most of any player with 500 home runs and 3,000 hits. Cabrera is the 33rd player in MLB history with at least 3,000 hits but just the third, along with Mays, with 3,000 hits, 500 home runs and a . Below is the list of the 286 Major League Baseball players who have reached the 2,000 hit milestone during their career in MLB.

Who has the most hits in MLB history?

On July 10, 1936, Gehrig joined the retired Ruth as the only players to hit 400 home runs. Jackson became the fourth player to hit his 400th home run while in a Yankees uniform, joining Ruth, Gehrig and Mantle. Jackson did it three years after being dubbed Mr. October for blasting three consecutive homers in the clinching game of the '77 World Series.

When he does retire, we'll do a much deeper dive on the hitting greatness of Mr. Cabrera. Schmidt was one of 12 hitters to garner at least 400 home runs while playing for one team during the entirety of his career. McGwire first full season with the Cardinals included not only his memorable run to a new single-season homer record, but also his 400th career long ball. Delgado hit a grand slam for his milestone 400th homer against the Cardinals for his second of the day. His first, a solo shot, gave the Mets an early lead, and his second, the 400th, brought the Mets within two runs.

Question: How many baseball players have 3000 hits and 500 home runs?

Sosa appropriately slammed a 2-1 Shane Reynolds pitch into the right-field bleachers at Wrigley Field in a game the Cubs ultimately lost to the Astros. Sosa also hit his 100th, 200th and 300th homers at Wrigley. Jones became just the second player in a White Sox uniform to hit home run No. 400, joining Thomas. As America celebrated Independence Day, Boston honored Big Papi.

The season wore on and Yaz haltingly raised his hit total. How he was still in the big leagues is a testament to his natural skill. The bus broke down somewhere en route and by the time word got to us it was too late to make it up to Boston.

How many baseball players have 3000 hits and 600 home runs?

I played Babe Ruth League but even there I mostly rode pine. Reaching 3,000 hits, in our opinion, is a benchmark of true greatness that few will ever achieve. Every player who reaches the 3,000 Hits Club has hall of fame skills with a baseball bat, and every one of them should be on a plaque in Cooperstown. The 3,000 Hits Club is a collection of Major League Baseball players who have recorded 3,000 or more regular-season hits during their big league career. Williams gave the Fenway faithful a special thrill in the summer of 1956, slugging homer No. 400 a half-dozen rows behind the visitors' bullpen to break up a pitchers' duel.

The only other active player on this list, Pujols has done nothing but mash over his storied MLB career. Despite never leading baseball in hits or batting average once during his 21-year career, Steady Eddie managed to put together a Hall of Fame career. The 1977 Rookie of the Year finished his career with 3,255 hits and 504 home runs. Just two players — Pete Rose and Ty Cobb — have gotten to 4,000 career hits. In Major League Baseball, the 3,000 hit club is an informal term applied to the group of players who have made 3,000 or more career base hits.

Closest active players

At the beginning of the 1979 season, both 3,000 hits and 400 home runs seemed in reach. Cal Ripken, Jr. has the lowest (.276) career batting average in the 3,000 Hits Club. In looking at the players with 3,000 career hits, you'll see greats like Ty Cobb, Stan Musial, Derek Jeter, Carl Yastrzemski, Roberto Clemente and Tony Gwynn. Thirty-three players have 3,000 hits, with Cabrera now No. 33. Just two players -- Pete Rose and Ty Cobb -- have gotten to 4,000 career hits. Gehrig hit 306 home runs from 1931 through the end of his career in '39 -- the second-highest total for that decade behind Foxx.

Dubbed a "speed guy" as a prospect, Sheffield had never imagined reaching the 400-homer mark. But once he did, on a towering shot to the left-field bleachers at Toronto's SkyDome, Sheffield immediately dreamed of pursuing 100 more. Homer No. 400 came on the same night as A-Rod's 370th dinger. He began his career with the Reds, and had stints with the Blue Jays -- with whom he hit 239 of his homers -- and Indians. But it was as a Seattle Mariner that Encarnacion took a trip around the bases with his signature "walking the parrot" gesture for the 400th time.

Ruth became the first player in Major League history to hit 400 home runs, posting a career-high 60 dingers in the legendary '27 season. Musial was the first player in Cardinals franchise history to hit 400 home runs while donning a St. Louis uniform, and he did it in dramatic fashion. The Cubs and Cards were deadlocked, 3-3, heading into the ninth, before Musial blasted a leadoff walk-off homer for career shot No. 400 off reliever Don Elston. In front of just 5,014 fans at Wrigley Field, Banks hit his 24th home run of the season and 400th of his career during a Thursday matinee against the Cardinals.

Molina won’t get to 3,000 though, as the 39-year-old plans to retire after this season. Meanwhile, Votto reached the 2,000-hit milestone last August and is now up to 2,035. With Cabrera having reached another tier of greatness, here’s a look at the other members of baseball’s 3,000-hit and 500-home run club.Hank Aaron. Joe DiMaggio, Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams — these baseball immortals are unquestionably some of the greatest hitters to have ever stepped up to the plate. Ichiro Suzuki recently proved he is the greatest hitter in Major League Baseball history. He had his 200th hit for the 10th straight year in the United States.

From a certain point of view, only a very few players -- probably only Aaron, Mays and Pujols -- are clearly ahead. The career top 20 in RBI is within striking range and a full season of health could push him all the way to 13th . He is just ahead of Foxx and Williams to break the top 20 in extra-base hits, too. Of course, none of the names listed above got to both 3,000 and 500.

Ortiz became the sixth player to reach 400 homers while in a Red Sox uniform, and the first since Ramirez in 2005. While he was only named to four All-Star teams, Rafael Palmeiro owned the 1990s. The longtime Ranger and Oriole slugged 569 home runs and recorded 1,835 RBIs on 3,020 hits over his 20-year MLB career. With Cabrera having reached another tier of greatness, here’s a look at the other members of baseball’s 3,000-hit and 500-home run club. Cabrera's 3,000th hit was No. 2,158 in his career with Detroit, where he has spent the last 15 seasons.

The slugging first baseman joined the 400-homer club during his 25th game repping New York. Griffey had been the youngest player to join the 400-homer club before getting dethroned by A-Rod in 2005. Griffey continued his trend of hitting milestone homers on his father's birthday, repeating the feat for the fourth time since swatting his first MLB homer in 1989 on the same date. Dunn joined fellow White Sox slugger Paul Konerko as the only teammates in MLB history to reach the 400-homer club in the same season. Dunn's towering homer went 428 feet to left-center at Kauffman Stadium. Teixeira was the most recent player to join the 400-homer club, and he's one of the few players to club homer No. 401 in the same game.

Cabrera is one of seven players in MLB history with at least 500 home runs and 3,000 hits, joining Pujols, Rodriguez, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Eddie Murray and Rafael Palmeiro. Based on his past performance, he’s still three to four years away from reaching 2,000 hits. And for Trout to reach 3,000 by the time his contract expires in 2030, he’d need to post 175.7 hits per season this year and in the eight years that follow. In baseball history, 133 players have hit 300 or more home runs, and 160 have stolen at least 300 bases, yet only 8 have done both.