This Date in Baseball - Ichiro Suzuki set the major league rookie record for hits in a season
2001 — Seattle’s Ichiro Suzuki set the major league rookie record for hits in a season but the Mariners fell to Oakland 8-4. Suzuki got his 234th hit, breaking the previous rookie mark set by Shoeless Joe Jackson with Cleveland in 1911. 2004 — Major League Baseball announces that the Montreal Expos franchise will move to Washington D.C.