With Jeter calling it quits, no end in sight to Rose's reign as Hit King

You know who's second among active players in career hits? Alex Rodriguez at 2,939 -- a figure that, it is safe to say he will not be adding to anytime soon.

Kostya Kennedy | Mar 6, 2014

With Jeter calling it quits, no end in sight to Rose's reign as Hit King /

After getting just 12 hits last season, Derek Jeter is still 940 hits away from Pete Rose's total of 4,256. — After getting just 12 hits last season, Derek Jeter is still 940 hits away from Pete Rose's total of 4,256 :: Jim McIsaac/Getty Images

You know who's second among active players in career hits? Alex Rodriguez at 2,939 -- a figure that, it is safe to say he will not be adding to anytime soon. There are just nine active players, including A-Rod, who are even halfway to Rose's mark, and 33-year-old Albert Pujols is the only member of that group who is younger than 34.

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Kostya Kennedy's new book, Pete Rose: An American Dilemma, is out on March 11 and available here.

Published Mar 6, 2014

KOSTYA KENNEDY

Kostya Kennedy, a senior editor for Sports Illustrated, joined the magazine in 1994 and writes on a range of topics for the magazine and SI.com. He covered hockey as a writer for many years and edited Sports Illustrated's The Hockey Book (2010). He has written often on baseball and he edited the magazine's Scorecard section. Kennedy's journalism experience includes time as a staff writer at Newsday. He was news editor at The Queens Tribune in New York City and he has written for The New York Times and The New Yorker among other publications. Kennedy received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and earned an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he was awarded a Pulitzer Fellowship. He has taught journalism at Columbia and at New York University.