Koji Chikamoto of the Hanshin Tigers got his 1000th career hit yesterday. I was thinking to myself that that was pretty impressive as Chikamoto hadn't been in the league wrong but then I realized that this is his seventh season already and he's 30 years old. It turns out, though, that he was the eighth fastest player in NPB history to reach that milestone, so he still did it pretty fast. (H/T NPB Reddit)
Here's his card from the 2021 BBM Tigers set (#T59):
