Ichiro Suzuki has donated the jersey, cleats, arm guard and batting gloves he wore while becoming the 30th player in the history of Major League Baseball to reach 3,000 hits to the Hall of Fame.

The president of the Baseball Hall of Fame was the grateful recipient of Suzuki's gear.

"There is no current player I've encountered who has as deep an appreciation of baseball history as Ichiro," Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson said. "This is a guy who understands his place in history. Because of that, as a sport and as a country, we're all the richer."