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That never even was fathomable to me, Heid recalls.Nor was it to his first manager here, Lou Piniella.To think in that first year that this young man would be playing at 42 and going for 3,000 hits, I didnt think it was possible then, Piniella says. Just 2,000 hits would have been an outstanding achievement.While Ichiro has had a great career here -- two batting titles, an MVP and a .314 career average -- as he aged and his numbers declined, many questioned whether he would be able to reach 3,000. Given his stats from last year -- career lows in hits (91) and batting average (.229) -- most estimates suggested that he might barely reach the mark near seasons end. Or that he would miss it and possibly not get another contract.Not that Robinson Cano doubted his former teammate.If you get to play with him and be around him, you know he will, said Cano, who played a season and a half with Ichiro. You would have to kick him out of baseball. Because he works out every day. Even when hes in the batting cage, he had his own weights he would lift before he hit. He was in shape. Thats the guy youre never going to see retire. He loves baseball so much. He said, Im going to play until Im 50 years old. If youre close to a milestone, why retire?Even if you reach a milestone, why retire if you are hitting as well as Ichiro is now? He reached the 3,000-hit mark months before he was expected to, and he is batting .317.I got to see him take batting practice recently and how he approached things and Im like, This guy has found the fountain of youth, Heid says. He reinvented himself. Just his control of the strike zone and pitches. Hes really locked in right now.Reaching 3,000 hits is an amazing accomplishment, especially when you dont get your first until age 27. But joining the prestigious 3,000 Hit Club is just one way in which Ichiro -- one of the best and most intriguing players in baseball history -- has made himself noteworthy. Here are 14 others -- which is probably 2,985 short of the Ichiro total.Treat your gear with respectIchiro is religious about his bats and gloves, caring for them meticulously. He stores his bats in a humidor, a case with chemical rods that keep his bats from gaining or losing moisture (he recently gave one to Marlins teammate Christian Yelich). He carries his bats to and from the dugout himself, not allowing the bat boys to touch them. Ichiro is so respectful of his equipment that once, after throwing his bat on the ground in frustration when he made an out in a game in Japan, he took the bat to his hotel room as a form of apology.He was so careful to place his bat at a certain spot on the dugout bench that the Mariners drilled a hole for it. He was very methodical that way, former teammate Dan Wilson said. Its probably one of those things that led him to be so consistent.Ichiro is just as particular with his gloves. Heid says during Ichiros first seasons with the Mariners, he was appalled by the way some teammates treated their equipment. During the 2009 World Baseball Classic, he openly criticized players who left their gloves unattended, tossed them on the bench or sat on them.His bats and gloves, Heid says, Are an extension of him. He treats his body as a temple. He treats his equipment the same -- as a temple.As Ichiro once told me: Equipment has heart, human heart, inside it.The batting stanceIchiro has one of the most distinctive at-bat preparations youll ever see. Its so amazing that Gar Ryness, aka the Batting Stance Guy, says he wouldnt be surprised to see him come up to bat with a Hugh Hefner smoking jacket, hit the ball and moonwalk to first base. He is so stylish in an enviable type of way.Before he goes to the plate, Ichiro will stretch in the on-deck circle, bending way down and shifting his body to the left and right. He will crouch with his rear end leaned back on his heels in a duck squat. When he gets to the plate, he will hold his bat up and outward toward the mound with his right hand. He will smell the batting glove on his left hand, then tug the shoulder of his jersey.There are other guys who have done the samurai pose, like Jim Thome, says Ryness. When Ichiro does it, he does it with so much more style. He would go slowly over the top. When he would tug his sleeve, he was doing everything short of motioning to the pitcher, OK, lets fight.Ryness isnt the only one who imitates Ichiro. There also is Fake Ichiro, who has imitated the hitters stance not only at games but also on a TV game show.I view Ichiro as a celebrity, Ryness says. Having been in Japan and seeing how they love him, Ichiro is like [David] Beckham.Inspiring a countryThe first Japanese player in the American major leagues was Masanori Murakami in 1964-65. There wasnt another until Hideo Nomo joined the Dodgers in 1995, followed by eight more pitchers in the ensuing five seasons. Ichiro, however, opened the way for position players -- Tsuyoshi Shinjo also started in the majors that season, but Ichiro debuted a day earlier and had a far more dramatic effect.For him to come over here and put up the numbers he did, it gave us position players in Japan hope that we could come over here and play over here, Mariners outfielder Nori Aoki says. Its still difficult now, but until then, Japanese position players didnt even think of coming here. We couldnt even imagine playing here.Since Ichiros debut, 13 Japanese position players have made the move.He reinforced the idea that Japanese baseball is very, very good baseball, Piniella says.The Ichiro LouvreIchiros father, Nobuyuki Suzuki, opened an Ichiro museum by the Nagoya airport, close to where he raised his son. The museum holds more than 2,000 items, many of them from Ichiros childhood. As the museum manager told me during a visit in 2002: When Ichiro was a child, his father told Ichiros mother, He is going to be a great athlete. We must keep everything. And they just kept everything.And they really did. Among the many items on display are Ichiros Little League uniforms, scorecards from his games, his model Star Wars TIE fighter, the certificate from his drivers training course, his high school ID card, his old bicycle, his school essays, his schoolboy satchel and his retainer from junior high. There is even an Ichiro mannequin seated at his old school desk, posed as if its working an abacus.BP masterWhile Ichiro is known as a singles hitter -- he has had roughly 700 infield singles in his career -- he has power, too. He has 113 career home runs here, including 15 in 2005, 37 leadoff home runs and two walk-off home runs, one of which was against Mariano Rivera.But it is during batting practice that his power is most on display. Ryness says he once saw Ichiro wink at somebody and then hit eight straight home runs. Winking or not, Ichiro will often blast balls into the stands. He recently sent several into the upper deck in Minnesota, which is not easy.Ive never seen anybody like that, not anybody in my life that can do that, how far he hits it, Cano says. I would love to see him in the Home Run Derby.A midsummer classicIchiro was an All-Star in each of his seven full seasons in Japan and in his first 10 seasons here. His best performance was in 2007 when he went 3-for-3 and hit the only inside-the-park home run in All-Star Game history and earned the MVP award.He also is known for his off-the-field All-Star performances -- he has fired up teammates with pregame speeches filled with foul language. But the most memorable might have been when he met President Obama at the 2009 All-Star Game. He bowed while shaking the presidents hand and got his autograph.My idea, when I saw him, was to say, Whats up? Ichiro said through his interpreter that day. But I got nervous. You know, he has that kind of aura about him. So I got nervous, and I didnt say that to him. I was a little disappointed about that.ddddddddddddBut I realized after seeing him today that presidents wear jeans, too. So my hope is that our skipper [Don Wakamatsu] was watching that and we can wear jeans on our flights.Speaking of which...Fashion statementsIchiro has always been known for his distinctive style of clothing. Bright striped shirts. Tight pants with cuffs high enough to show his bright bold socks. Very stylish shoes. He even wore a Bugs Bunny sweatshirt when meeting Ken Griffey Jr. for the first time in 1995. Another time, manager Mike Hargrove was so taken aback by his style of jeans that he had Ichiro bring them into his office.In 2009, Larry LaRue of the Tacoma News Tribune wrote about how Griffey would rate Ichiros clothes each game. Id wear that shirt, Junior told LaRue. The pants? No. That belt? No. Shoes? Yeah, I might wear those. But that man purse? No f---ing way. Youre 2-for-5 today.Cano categorizes Ichiros style as trendy European. You would see him wearing it, and then the next thing, everybody is wearing it. He used to have pants up at his ankles, and he would be the only one. And then later on, a year later, everyone has that. You see LeBron [James] with it.Downward-facing hitterAs careful as Ichiro is with his equipment, hes even more careful with his body. He stretches a good deal, and not just before at-bats. Before games, he massages the soles of his feet with a wooden stick.I was quite amazed by the thing