Excluding the members of the 3, 000 hit club whose careers had coincided with the DeadBallera (Cobb, Speaker, Wagner, Collins and Lajoie) or even pre-dated the early twentieth century (Anson), the average length of time it has taken for a member of the 3, 000 hit club to accumulate the final 10 hits is 35.14 at bats.
The casual observer might presume that soccer has experienced some kind of paradigm shift akin to baseball's transition from the dead-ball era or the NFL's recent transformation into a pass-happy league.