Ichiro Suzuki is not a famous name—unless you know baseball. The 45-year-old Seattle Mariners outfielder announced his retirement from the grand old game this March, after playing against the Oakland A’s at the Tokyo Dome.

Ichiro (as he’s affectionately known) will be eligible for nomination into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2025. With 4,367 career hits, he has surpassed Ty Cobb’s 4,189—Cobb being the only other player with more than 4,000 hits in the Hall of Fame. (For the stat heads among you, Pete Rose—with 4,256 hits—is not recognized. In 1991, the Hall of Fame ruled that a banned player could not stand for election—and Rose had been banned for betting on games.)

Unfortunately for Ichiro fans, it turns out that Cobb will remain the official leader in hits—as I discovered myself after contacting the Baseball Hall of Fame for confirmation. As per the Hall of Fame’s policy, only American Major League Baseball (MLB) hits will count—Ichiro’s 1,278 hits for the Japanese Pacific League will be listed separately. Still, Ichiro will find himself among the current 25 players in the 3,000 club—a gold standard in and of itself.

CFA Institute, of course, has its own gold standard: the CFA charter. Candidates must pass three levels of exams and have at least four years of professional work experience in some form of investment decision-making before being granted membership. In 2018, CFA Society Toronto welcomed over 700 new CFA charter-holding members.

So while the boys of summer will be stealing bases and pitching fast balls over the next few months, our men and women of summer will be studying hard. CFA charter hopefuls (there were more than 9,300 Toronto-area candidates registered, as of press time) will be up to bat on June 15 to write their CFA exams (all levels). And the next CFA charter hopefuls will be sitting the Level 1 exam in December.

In the meantime, it’s a good reminder that summer, whether in baseball or in finance, isn’t the time to rest on your laurels—that is, if you want to make it into the big leagues.