Baseball uses the number of career hits to mark a player's greatness. There are only 30 players who have batted 3000 or more 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This list will, by its very nature, become outdated as each baseball season progresses.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 total |
| Cap Anson | July 16, 1897 | 3,418 |
| Honus Wagner | July 9, 1914 | 3,415 |
| Nap Lajoie | September 15, 1914 | 3,242 |
| Ty Cobb | August 19, 1921 | 4,191 |
| Tris Speaker | May 17, 1925 | 3,514 |
| Eddie Collins | June 6, 1925 | 3,315 |
| Paul Waner | June 19, 1942 | 3,152 |
| Stan Musial | May 13, 1958 | 3,630 |
| Hank Aaron | May 17, 1970 | 3,771 |
| Willie Mays | July 18, 1970 | 3,283 |
| Roberto Clemente | September 30, 1972 | 3,000 |
| Al Kaline | September 24, 1974 | 3,007 |
| Pete Rose | May 5, 1978 | 4,256 |
| Lou Brock | August 13, 1979 | 3,023 |
| Carl Yastrzemski | September 12, 1979 | 3,419 |
| Rod Carew | August 4, 1985 | 3,053 |
| Robin Yount | September 9, 1992 | 3,142 |
| George Brett | September 29, 1992 | 3,154 |
| Dave Winfield | September 16, 1993 | 3,110 |
| Eddie Murray | June 30, 1995 | 3,255 |
| Paul Molitor | September 16, 1996 | 3,319 |
| Tony Gwynn | August 6, 1999 | 3,141 |
| Wade Boggs | September 7, 1999 | 3,010 |
| Cal Ripken | April 15, 2000 | 3,184 |
| Rickey Henderson | October 7, 2001 | 3,055 |
| Rafael Palmeiro | July 15, 2005 | 3,020 |
| Craig Biggio | June 28, 2007 | 3,060 |
| Derek Jeter | July 9, 2011 | 3,465 |
| Alex Rodriguez | June 19, 2015 | TBD |
| Ichiro Suzuki | August 7, 2016 | TBD |
... 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 their 3,000th hit, since a list of 4,000-hit club members would be rather short, considering that Cobb and Rose are the only members.