Entering play Monday, Boggs was 50 hits away and Ripken 102. I think it would be neat if we all did it in the same year. Gwynn referred to the fact that there never has been a season in which three players reached the 3,000-hit plateau. On five different occasions, two players accomplished the feat in the same year, the last coming in 1992 when Milwaukee's Robin Yount and Kansas City's George Brett did it. Gwynn is rightfully proud to be on the verge of 3,000 hits while playing exclusively in the NL, where no designated hitter is used.
Nobody's really close.
Doing it all in the National League is an important thing, and doing it all with one club is an important thing. In the meantime, Gwynn is concentrating on getting healthy, trying to maintain his sweet swing and not go stir crazy in the process. Appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on June 1, 1999. All rights reserved. Produced by Journal Interactive .