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Safest record in sports? The one which will never be beaten

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Originally posted by: kranky
When I think of great sports records, I have to favor actual achievements over simple longevity like Ripken's, Rice's and Favre's streaks. They are impressive for sure, but they don't knock me over. Gagne's 84 saves is nice, but frankly saves are overrated.

Cy Young's 511 wins will never be broken, but it's a much different game today because pitchers can't get enough starts in a career to even approach it, so that takes away a bit.
Bill Russell's 11 championships is impressive but it's as much of a team thing than an individual thing.
Wilt's 100 points was a sham because the team fed him the ball the entire game just to get him to 100.
Vandermeer's 2 consecutive no-hitters is amazing, but doing something twice isn't exactly monumental. Same for Ryan's 7 no-hitters. Impressive, but still only seven games out of an entire career.

My vote goes to DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. No one has ever come close and that record doesn't lose any luster because the game has evolved over the years. Simply amazing.
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i think Joe's record can be broken, though it's obviously incredibly difficult... Suzuki has a very real shot at doing, being the slap hitter that he is.. I wouldn't be surprised if he was able to break or come within 4 or 5 games, before he retires.. (didn't George Brett have a 40+ streak, or was that Molitor?)

Cy Young's record i don't think can be touched... most starters get what, 32-37 starts a season? At today's standards of 20 wins being a great season, youd need about 26 years to beat it... 26 consecutive 20-win seasons!

There's so many though.. Gretzky, Chamberlain, Williams, Bonds, Favre (incredible, I hate American Football, but damn near 200 games straight... crazy kid.. 😀), Henderson...

 
Originally posted by: CaptainKahuna
Originally posted by: her209
Al Bundy
4 touchdowns in one game.
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Uh, I think that's broken nearly every season. Unless there's a joke im not getting
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Jokes aren't the only thing you're not getting


Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
Ryan's stikeout total.
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Randy Johnson might break this record. Unlikely, but possible.
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no way
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He'll need to average 260 K's for the next six seasons. Johnson had 290 K's this season. Like I said, unlikely, but possible.
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You pointed out the reason it won't happen. Six seasons. Not only that, but six seasons of dominance with 260 K's. He's way to old to have six more seasons.
 
Think of it as a couple people in the NBA having 80-90 point games every season.
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Sorry, no player has scored over 71 in a game since the 1970s and no one besides Wilt has scored over 73 in a game.

I'd say Wilt's 100 points along with a handful of his other records will never be broken. Neither will some of Cy Young's records, or how about some of Satchel Paige's baseball records in the Negro League? Starting 29 games in a month? Oldest rookie in the majors? And I believe he has a few more...
 
Statistically speaking, Joe D's 56 games with a hit is unheard of. The closest to EVER come to him was 44 games, a National League Record, set by Charlie Hustle. That's a diff of 12 games! Nobody will ever touch Joe D's steak!

The greatest record EVER, statistically, is TIGER WOODS WINNING ALL 4 MAJORS IN ONE CALENDAR YEAR, possibly the greatest run in any sport ever:
2000, Age 24
Wins U.S. Open at Pebble Beach by a record 15 strokes (65-69-71-67--272), the largest margin of victory ever recorded at a major tournament. Breaks or ties a total of nine records at the U.S. Open. Becomes the Tour's all-time career money leader.

Becomes the fifth player in history (and youngest ever) to complete the career Grand Slam by winning the British Open by eight strokes. His 19-under 269 is the best score ever at St. Andrews and the lowest score (in relation to par) at a major tournament.

Defeats Bob May in a three-hole playoff at Valhalla in Louisville to win his second consecutive PGA Championship and third consecutive major title. He joins Ben Hogan (1953) as the only two players to win three majors in one season.

2001, Age 25
In April, wins the Masters tournament, becomes the first golfer to be reigning champion of all four majors simultaneously. Wins five overall PGA events and takes home PGA Player of the Year honors for the third consecutive year.
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It was aired on ESPN as the greatest record ever (top 25 greatest records ever), and it will likely NEVER be broken! Winning one major is hard enough, winning 2 in a row is spectacular, winning 3 in a row is UNREAL (Ben Hogan is the only man to have ever done this besides Tiger), winning 4 in a row in a single calendar year = GODLIKE.

Edit: Honorable mention of feats (flash in the pan) goes to Wilt's 100, Don Larson's World Series perfect game, Secretariat winning the Triple Crown at the Belmont Stakes by an unprecedented and unrepeated 31 lengths and setting a new Belmont Stakes and 1.5-mile record of 2:24 (2-3/5's seconds faster than any other horse at that distance), 2004 Red Sox overcoming an 0-3 deficit in a best of seven and then sweeping the next best of seven, Cy Youngs career victories. All records or feats that will probably never be broken nor will we see again.
 
OH come on! Joe Dimaggio's hit record guys! 56 hits in a row. That requires such an impossilbe combination of hits and luck (although Ichiro may be the man created to take down this record).
 
Originally posted by: KevinH
OH come on! Joe Dimaggio's hit record guys! 56 hits in a row. That requires such an impossilbe combination of hits and luck (although Ichiro may be the man created to take down this record).
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Tiger Woods winning all four Masters in a row (golf Grand Slam, see above) is the only thing more impressive in my book. The Yankee Clipper's streak will never, ever be broken by Ichiro. I would bet the farm on it.
 
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
gretzkys point totals
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What's even crazier, is that Gretzky would still hold the record for points if he didn't even score a single one of his 800 and some goals. Just based on assists he's still the NHL points leader.
 
I'm surprised nobody mentioned how cheap Wilt's 100 points in a game were. They just shamelessly ran up the score during an era of basketball where most of Wilt's points would now be considered offensive basket interference.
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
Ryan's stikeout total.
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Randy Johnson might break this record. Unlikely, but possible.
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no way
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He'll need to average 260 K's for the next six seasons. Johnson had 290 K's this season. Like I said, unlikely, but possible.
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You pointed out the reason it won't happen. Six seasons. Not only that, but six seasons of dominance with 260 K's. He's way to old to have six more seasons.[/quote]

Maybe, but it's a crazy game of baseball. He'll be 46 then. He might not get 260 K's, but if he gets somewhere in the upper 100's, he can make up the difference next season and two seasons from now.
 
I find his 50.4 pts./game AVERAGE to be more a little more impressive than 100 pts. in one game. I mean, to average 50 points a game is astounding. It was like a HUGE deal whenever Jordan would score 50 or 60 points. To do that night in and night out over the course of an entire season blows my mind.
 
Gretzky's records... especially since it looks like the NHL may never take the ice again (and nobody cares)!
 
Originally posted by: xboxist
I find his 50.4 pts./game AVERAGE to be more a little more impressive than 100 pts. in one game. I mean, to average 50 points a game is astounding. It was like a HUGE deal whenever Jordan would score 50 or 60 points. To do that night in and night out over the course of an entire season blows my mind.
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Once again, most of those points were scored in such a way that they would now be considered offensive basket interference.
 
Originally posted by: Brackis
The Cal Sanderson guy from the midwest who went undefeated in HS and the NCAA in wrestling.
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Yep, Carl Saederson from Iowa State University. Speaking of college sports, didn't some college guy have a 70+ game hitting streak?
 
Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Originally posted by: KevinH
OH come on! Joe Dimaggio's hit record guys! 56 hits in a row. That requires such an impossilbe combination of hits and luck (although Ichiro may be the man created to take down this record).
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Tiger Woods winning all four Masters in a row (golf Grand Slam, see above) is the only thing more impressive in my book. The Yankee Clipper's streak will never, ever be broken by Ichiro. I would bet the farm on it.
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Agreed, I don't think he'll do it...I"m just saying if tehre is a player right now Ichiro would be him.
 
Don Bradmans batting Average in Test Cricket. 99.94.

The best of the rest only average in the 50-60's. To put this into a US perspective, for Babe Ruth to have been as good as Don, he would have to lift his average by at least 50%.

Another perspective is that he averaged 56.57 during the infamous "bodyline" series where the English bowlers were instructed to deliver short pitched deliveries aimed at the chest, throat and head of the batsman. Again to put this into US perspective, how would any basbell batsmen cope with most pitches aimed at their head?
 
Heather Mckay, Women's squash. Undefeated in seventeen years of International competition. The winning streak only stopped when she retired.....
 
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