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Unbreakable Baseball Records

June 16th 2010 02:48

The Baseball Records That Will Never Be Broken

Baseball is a game of statistics and records. The old saying goes that records are made to be broken, but as Sports Illustrated discovered, there are some records that cannot be touched. Read the full article here.

511 wins - Cy Young

Baseball was a different game in Young's career, which spanned the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Nevertheless, his all-time wins record, which has already stood for nearly 100 years, will easily last for at least another 100. Just to get to 500, a pitcher would have to average 25 wins a season for 20 years, and only two pitchers in the past 30 years have had even one season of 25 wins.

56 game hitting streak - Joe DiMaggio (1941)

DiMaggio's famous streak has never been seriously challenged. In the nearly 70 years since his magical summer of 1941, only Pete Rose (44 in 1978) has even reached 40 straight games, and other than DiMaggio, no player in history has gotten to 45 in a row.

.690 lifetime slugging pct. - Babe Ruth -

Though Ruth's more glamorous records have been eclipsed, this one has withstood challenges from Lou Gehrig to Ted Williams to Barry Bonds and remains intact. Albert Pujols, currently the game's most prolific slugger, has never reached .690 even once in his stellar career.

48 complete games - Jack Chesbro (1904)

Nothing illustrates the changing nature of pitching through the years better than this stat. The overall record is 75, set by Will White in 1879. Chesbro ranks just 124th all-time but he holds the modern era record with 48 in 1904 and is the only pitcher over 45 in the modern era. Even if the bar is lowered to begin with the Live Ball era (which began in 1920), the mark would still be untouchable. Both Grover Cleveland Alexander (1920) and Burleigh Grimes (1923) had 33 complete games. Most pitchers today, assuming they stay healthy, will make 34 starts a year, and no pitcher in the 21st century has even gotten to double-digit complete games in a season.

.366 lifetime batting average - Ty Cobb

Since Cobb retired after the 1928 season, there have been only 46 seasons in which a hitter reached .366, and only one hitter (Tony Gwynn) ever did it at least four times. Gwynn's lifetime average? .338, nowhere near Cobb's mark.

Unbreakable Baseball Records

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