Baseball
Cal Ripken's consecutive games played
Cy Young's career pitching wins
Discuss (Skuj)
Baseball
Cal Ripken's consecutive games played
Cy Young's career pitching wins
Discuss (Skuj)
Those aren't world records, they're MLB records.
Okay, I've removed the "world" part...
Lance Armstrong's 7 consecutive TDF titles.
With only one pitcher in the last two years getting 20 wins, I'd definitely think the 511 by Young is going to last a very long time.
SVC wrote:
Baseball
Cal Ripken's consecutive games played
Cy Young's career pitching wins
Discuss (Skuj)
Cy Young's 749 complete games
Rick Barry's Underhand Free Throw Record...
Baseball's record for triples...309 in a career by Sam Crawford and 36 in a season by Owen Wilson...are never going to be broken
I have heard a lot of sports broadcasters say they think Tom Glavine will be the last 300 game winner let alone any get close to 500.I was at #300 also. It was cool to see everyone at Wrigley Field give Glavine a standing ovation when he left.
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With only one pitcher in the last two years getting 20 wins, I'd definitely think the 511 by Young is going to last a very long time.
I saw Maddux #301 in person. Missed it by one :(
I want to see if Crosby can come close to Gretzky's records. I'm not sure he will. He has the 4 best seasons in hockey history, points wise. Seriously, 215 points in a season is absurd.
Camoo wrote:
Baseball's record for triples...309 in a career by Sam Crawford and 36 in a season by Owen Wilson...are never going to be broken
Owen is also a pretty funny guy.
What about Hack Wilson's single season RBI record of 191?
I think there could be another 300-game winner, even though even as many as 18 wins in a season are rare now. There are people pitching well into their 40s, and frankly, good pitching is in short supply in the Majors so careers will be long.
One fairly arcane baseball record that will never be broken is Roy Face's relief pitching winning percentage of .947 in a season, the year he was 18-1. Considering that relievers are now most prized when they can come into a game and save a lead their team already has ... this record is safe forever.
Eh, I don't really consider Cy Young's records all that impressive. They were basically playing a different sport back then.
From his wikipedia page: "When Young's career began, pitchers delivered the baseball underhand and fouls were not counted as strikes. The pitcher's mound was not moved back to its present position of 60 feet, six inches until Young's fourth season; he did not wear a glove until his sixth". At another part it says that he did not lead the league in innings pitched until his 13th season in the league (despite all those complete games).
Don't get me wrong, he was obviously the best of his era and a no-doubt Hall of Famer. But I don't hear 36 wins in a season and think "oh my god!", it's more like "well, things were a lot different, and easier, back then".
Back to back no hitters. I dont know who did or when but to break that record you have to throw three in a row. It may be tied someday but never broken.
By nearly any statistical standards, nothing is close to DiMaggio's hitting streak.
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Joe D's 56 game hit streak
Johnny Vander Meer's back-to-back no-hitters.
Norman Manley's back-to-back double eagles.
To break these, someone will have to go three in a row. Not going to happen.
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.
Manley aced two par 4s in a row, by the way, on September 2, 1964.