How beautiful that, to become the 30th player to reach 3,000 hits, Ichiro smacked - with perfect numerative symmetry - a three-bagger.
He is the bright face of globalization, as well as the hero of the little guy, and anyone who’s ever been deemed over-the-hill. A middle-aged Japanese superstar playing a young man’s game in an American city that’s predominantly Hispanic has become a beloved Everyman.
