Ichiro's 2001 total of 242 hits was the highest since 1930. In the Top 12 single-season total for hits, only Ichiro's 2001 and 2004 seasons have come since 1930. Ichiro clearly is hitting in a tougher era. Babe Ruth never had more than 240 hits in a season.
More history and information on: pencils, pens, erasers, pencils, pencil sharpeners, ballpoint pens, and more. No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had - Samuel Johnson. A Hungarian journalist named Laszlo Biro invented the first ballpoint pen in 1938.Biro had noticed that the type of ink used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and smudge-free.his principle of the ballpoint pen actually dates back to an 1888 patent owned by John J. Loud for a product to mark leather. However, this patent was commercially unexploited. Laszlo Biro first patented his pen in 1938, and applied for a fresh patent in Argentina on June 10, 1943.
Louds invention featured a reservoir of ink and a roller ball that applied the thick ink to leather hides. John Louds pen was never produced, nor were any of the other 350 patents for ball-type pens issued over the next thirty years.URL: www.pentel.com/2prof.html) The Origins of the Ball Point Pen While on a business trip to Buenos Aires in 1945 Reynolds came upon an early ballpoint pen invented by Ladislas Biro, a Hungarian journalist.