Houston Astros baseball player Kazuo Matsui of Japan poses while wearing the Golden Player's Club Jacket, with Astros Manager Cecil Cooper (L) and his former manager, Osamu Higashio (R), a former pitcher, and a member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame, after getting his 2,000th career hit against the Milwaukee Brewers following a MLB National League baseball game in Milwaukee, Wisconsin August 15, 2009. Matsui has 1,433 hits playing in Japan, and 567 MLB hits. He is the fifth baseball Japanese player with 400 career stolen bases, and 2,000 base hits. 2,000 career hits, or 200 pitching wins, gives a Japanese player automatic entry into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. REUTERS/Allen Fredrickson (UNITED STATES SPORT BASEBALL)