Youngest Players To Hit 4000 Hits
Who was the youngest player to hit 4000 hits?
Ty Cobb is the youngest player to hit 4000 hits, accomplishing it at the age of 40 years and 223 days old. He hit his 4000th hit on Jul 29, 1927.
Note: Some players on this leaderboard might show up as having 4001 or 4002 hits, which means they hit multiple Hs in the game in which they crossed the milestone. In order to normalize the modern statistics and the historic ones (for which there is no play-by-play data), all the stats shown here are based on per-game statistics. Meaning that the at-bat total might not be the exact at-bat in which the player reached the milestone, only the number of ABs and PAs they had at the conclusion of the game in which they reached the milestone.
This list filters out players born before 1880, as many of them played in the era pre-1901 before game-level boxscores were available, and thus a specific game number when a milestone was achieved couldn't be presented accurately.
This list filters out players born before 1880, as many of them played in the era pre-1901 before game-level boxscores were available, and thus a specific game number when a milestone was achieved couldn't be presented accurately.