ahhh cricket. The sport no one cares to understand.
ahhh cricket. The sport no one cares to understand.
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I'd say because of the way the game is played it would be Ricky Henderson's stolen base records:
1406 career
130 season
I also believe pitching staffs in Cy's days were only 3-4 people deep. Pitchers were much more durable back then because they didn't pitch as fast and they could easily come back on 2-3 days rest. For instance, look at someone like Tim Wakefield who's like 100 years old but could probably pitch another 10 years if he really wanted to if can still control the knuckball. That pitch floats in at 60-70mph at its fastest.
"Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox." ¯Willie Stargell
"For a knuckleballer, a pitch count of 150 is not a problem. Unless it's the first inning." ¯Dave Clark
"Hitting Niekro's knuckleball is like eating soup with a fork." - Richie Hebner
Brett Favre's 500 consecutive starts at QB (when he's finally finished).
His TD record, his int record, his passing yards record, his completion record, his pass attempts record, his games won record, etc., etc. ad infinitum (or ad nauseum if you're a Bears' fan).
To be serious, no record will last forever. It's a statistical impossibility.
yeah, there used to be pitchers who would get 65 starts in a season...you're not going to see that happen anymore
Favre's start record will stand for a while, guy is a warrior. Any and all of his statistical records will fall within the next 10 years to Peyton Manning.
SVC wrote:
Baseball
Cal Ripken's consecutive games played
Cy Young's career pitching wins
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Is chess a sport???
If so,
Fischer's age upon winning the US Open.
Karpov's tournament record.
figment wrote:
Favre's start record will stand for a while, guy is a warrior. Any and all of his statistical records will fall within the next 10 years to Peyton Manning.
Except the career interception record.
Care to back that claim up with facts?
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I saw Maddux #301 in person. Missed it by one :(
I was at Tom Seaver's 300th game against the Yankees. It was also Phil Rizzuto day where Phil Rizzuto got ran over by a cow.
Any sport?
Richard Petty's 200 NASCAR victories will never be broken. The competition is just so much better today. Jeff Gordon, with 81 victories and age 36, is by far the closest active driver to Petty. Gordon might get to 150... 160 tops. He's already making noises about retiring. No one else will even reach 100.
POD!
Joe D's 56-game streak is just mind boggling. Getting a hit per game every game for just about 10 weeks (figuring six games a week). When Pete Rose got to 44 he was still two weeks' worth of games away from tying the record.
As for team records, the Celtics' or UCLA's championship BB runs may never be equaled. Too much parity nowadays.
The same day Rod Carew got his 3,000th hit.
Maybe this isn't exactly what you had in mind, but:
UCLA Basketball under John Wooden
National Champs in 1964,65,67,68,68,70,71,72,73,75....10 titles in 12 years
4 Undefeated seasons
88 game win streak.
I think I can safely say, without hyperbole that these records, especially the first, will never be broken in a gazillion years.
Agreed. Even crazier is Gretzky's 169 assists in a single season, the same year as his 215 points. Only two or three other players have ever tallied 169 points in a season.
Actually it was 163 assists, and Lemieux is the only other player in history to top 163 points in a season. Wow.
Ray Ewry, the human frog, Standing High Jump 5ft 5ins