Baseball uses the number of career hits to mark a player's greatness. There are only 25 players who have batted 3000 hits in the history of the game. This is that list.

This list will, by its very nature, become outdated as each baseball season progresses. Please supersede this writeup (rather than just adding a new writeup to append to it), if you plan on maintaining this list in earnest.

Player            Date of 3000th hit  Career hit totals
Cap Anson                 07/16/1897              3,418
Honus Wagner              07/09/1914              3,415
Nap Lajoie                09/15/1914              3,242
Ty Cobb                   08/19/1921              4,191
Tris Speaker              05/17/1925              3,514
Eddie Collins             06/06/1925              3,315
Paul Waner                06/19/1942              3,152
Stan Musial               05/13/1958              3,630
Hank Aaron                05/17/1970              3,771       
Willie Mays               07/18/1970              3,283
Roberto Clemente          09/30/1972              3,000
Al Kaline                 09/24/1974              3,007
Pete Rose                 05/05/1978              4,256
Lou Brock                 08/13/1979              3,023
Carl Yastrzemski          09/12/1979              3,419
Rod Carew                 08/04/1985              3,053
Robin Yount               09/09/1992              3,142
George Brett              09/29/1992              3,154
Dave Winfield             09/16/1993              3,110
Eddie Murray              06/30/1995              3,255
Paul Molitor              09/16/1996              3,319
Tony Gwynn                08/06/1999              3,141
Wade Boggs                09/07/1999              3,010
Cal Ripken                04/15/2000              3,184
Rickey Henderson          10/07/2001              3,055
Rafael Palmeiro           07/15/2005              3,020
Craig Biggio              06/28/2007              3,060

... With more undoubtedly to come.

NOTE: This list is arranged in chronological order, rather than by number of hits. Also, Cobb and Rose both finished their careers with more than 4,000 hits; their entries here indicate the date they each received 3,000 hits, since a list of 4,000-hit club members would be rather short, considering that Cobb and Rose are the only members.