Interesting way to look at it. He'd have to have the bases loaded and bat 1.000 3 times in a row, all in one inning. They'd have to play MLB for 1,000 years for that to happen again.
Which reminds me. Williams' .406 is looking pretty hard to beat year after year. It's way up their with the DiMaggio streak.
Lisa Leslie scored 101 points in a high school basketball game. She would have gone on to break the record of 105 but the other team forfeited at half-time. I'm not sure that most points scored in half a basketball game really counts as a record, but no one will break that.
Although it is tough to argue against Don Bradman. What he accomplished is roughly like batting 400 for a career. Modern superstars aren't even close to what he accomplished.
However, the one record that will never be broken is the marathon record by the GOAT, Paul Tergat.
What?
That's exactly what I had in mind! :)
Will Chamberlain scoring 100 or so in a game
It took 4 pages for Wilt's record to show up? Sad, just sad.
...and it was EXACTLY 100 points and will NEVER be broken:
http://www.nba.com/warriors/history/100_point_game.html
Final score of the game was 169 to 147. In today's crappy games you don't see that kind of offense.
Alan
Nascar is not a sport wrote:
Um, I think you're on the wrong thread. It was about records in sports, not driving.
You might want to rethink that. Just because it involves machinery does not mean it is not as sport.
That record was farcical and they set it up for him to do it. It was really lack of defense and just a shooting show- that's a basket every 25 seconds.
Not to take anything away from 'the Stilt', but there is sport and then there is sideshow.
Big John wrote:
Nascar is not a sport wrote:Um, I think you're on the wrong thread. It was about records in sports, not driving.
You might want to rethink that. Just because it involves machinery does not mean it is not as sport.
Look everyone, a hillbilly with more than one tooth!
MarathonMind wrote:
That record was farcical and they set it up for him to do it. It was really lack of defense and just a shooting show- that's a basket every 25 seconds.
Not to take anything away from 'the Stilt', but there is sport and then there is sideshow.
It was not a setup. I earned those points! My other record is more important anyway. They didn't call me the Stilt because of my basketball skills!
Ok,to bring this back to TRACK
What about the 400m Hurdler Edwin Moses win streak?
Edwin Moses was undefeated in 122 consecutive meets, over a period of over nine years. In today's age...I can't imagine ANYBODY in ANY event dominating for almost 10 years like that.
the boss wrote:
Will Chamberlain scoring 100 or so in a game
Or Frank Selvy scoring 100 points in an NCAA game, and prior to the shot clock, to boot.
Bill Rodgers winning four Boston and Four NYC Marathon titles.
If someone can bring up stock car racing, I can bring up horses - Secretariat at the Belmont. I doubt we will ever see another horse win the Belmont by 31 lengths and knock 2+ seconds off the track record at the same time. His 2:24 is still the track record, as well as the world record for 1 1/2 miles on a dirt track. If we ever do see another Triple Crown Winner, I doubt the performances will even be close to Secretariat's in those three races.
Horse racing, NASCAR and chess are not sports.
Nolan Ryan:
7 No Hitters
12 One Hitters
[b18 Two Hitters
5,714 Strikeouts, 1,200 ahead of Clemens and Johnson.
Oh, and he kicked Robin Ventura's ass once too. And got away with it.
About Wilt's 81...
It's REAL good, but I do remember some rapist on some team in LA scoring 81 a few years back. That's more than 80 percent there...far off but closer than some of the other records out there.
He's notable for other reasons as well:
Connie Mack:
Managed for 53 years, 50 of them CONSECUTIVELY
He retired at age 87!
Do the Oz wrote:
Sir Donald Bradman's test batting average 99.94. No other player has averaged more than 61 (20 innings+). Bradman scored centuries at a rate better than one every three innings. Bear in mind back then they played a lot less test matches. In 80 Test innings Bradman scored 29 centuries and converted 12 of them into double hundreds, the most achieved by any batsman. No-one will ever come close to his records.
Bingo! We have a winner.
Herb Elliott's record of remaining unbeaten in his main event the 1500m/mile throughout his running career.