Posts about the GT Frosh hitting 4 homers in a game got me thinking about

Feb 28, 2024, 12:15 PM

another baseball accomplishment from years of yore. Once upon a few decades ago, one Peter Edward Rose had a 44 game hit streak going, and was trying to catch and break Joltin' Joe Dimaggio's famous 56 game hit streak record.

Rose's 44 game streak had already garnered him the National League record, besting that of Bill Dahlen of the 1894 Chicago Cubs, who had hit in 42 straight games. The Reds were now playing, you guessed it, the Atlanta Braves. Pete was hitless for the game when he came up for one last chance to extend the streak against Atlanta pitcher Gene Garber.

Now, Gene Garber had so much junk in his pitching arsenal, he could have opened up a flea market and stocked it himself. He was lobbing up so much sidearmed, submariner junk at Rose that at one point, an exasperated Rose was said to have muttered "CHALLENGE ME, ######!" Or something flowery like that. But, alas, Garber got him swinging for his third strike, and final out of the game, as the Braves won and snapped the streak at 44 games. Joltin' Joe and Marilyn Monroe could rest easy.

Rose's hitting in 44 straight games is still the National League record, to this day. In these times of specialized relievers, short outings by starters, etc, odds are, both his and Dimaggio's records will remain in place forever. Or, at least for a very long time from now.

There are a few major league records that WILL never be broken. Among them:

Complete games pitched in a career: 749, by Cy Young. This is just one of the reasons that most prestigious pitching award is named for him. That's not career games pitched, that is career COMPLETE games pitched. Bottles the Mime just to think about it. Another pitcher, named Will White, has the most complete games in a SEASON record, at 75. set in 1879. Equally amazing.

Most career wins: 511, again by Cy Young. Nuff said.

Most wins in a season: 60, by Charles Radbourn, in 1884. Modern pitchers don't even get near that number of STARTS in a season, much less wins.

Most career no-hitters: 7, by Nolan Ryan. This is one of the few relatively modern "unreachable" records out there. Nolan also owns the record for career strikeouts, at 5,714. Randy Johnson is 2nd, at 4,875, 839 FEWER than Ryan.

Most career hits: 4,256, by Pete Rose. Nobody will ever approach this one, nobody will play long enough to amass that many plate appearances, much less hits.

Most home runs in a single game: 4, by 18 players. Only five of those had a chance for a fifth. Of those, Lou Gehrig in 1932 hit a deep flyout to center field, and Joe Adcock came closest, hitting a double off the top of the wall in 1954.

Fewest strikeouts in a qualified season: "Wee" Willie Keeler had 633 plate appearances in 1899, and struck out TWICE. Yes, TWO TIMES, in 570 official at bats. Modern hitters strike out more than that in a single game.

Most consecutive games played: 2,632. Cal Ripken's Iron Man streak will never be equaled. Again, most likely because modern players just are not going to play that long, and nowadays, a hangnail can keep you out of the lineup.

Most steals of HOME in a career. 54, by Ty Cobb. Home is rarely stolen at ALL now, much less 54 times TOTAL by anybody, anywhere.

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Re: Posts about the GT Frosh hitting 4 homers in a game got me thinking about

Of all those records, Cal games played is pretty much impossible.
Ryan, no-hitters & strikeouts are going to stand forever.
Cy Young records are safe and sound, game is much different.

Pete Rose record is crazy, but I see that as a slight possibility of being broken. However minimal, and it is very very very minimal, a healthy player playing 22/23 years at 190 hits per season is there. That at least is somewhat feasible although not at all likely. This day and age guys aren't playing 20 full seasons and miss quite a few games each season, the "load management" ideology. So you may be right, but I happen to believe that a young 19/20 year old comes in and is a hitting machine collecting 200+ hits for multiple years and if somehow the longevity can be there to get 150+ hits through his last few seasons the hit record can be at least challenged. Who knows, everything has to go just right though and that is why records are so awesome!!

Re: Posts about the GT Frosh hitting 4 homers in a game got me thinking about

Good info. My son, BigAl, was born on September 6, 1995

Re: Posts about the GT Frosh hitting 4 homers in a game got me thinking about

PS: One of the 18 guys who have hit 4 homers in a major league game was the

Posts about the GT Frosh hitting 4 homers in a game got me thinking about

Re: Posts about the GT Frosh hitting 4 homers in a game got me thinking about

Re: Posts about the GT Frosh hitting 4 homers in a game got me thinking about

Good info. My son, BigAl, was born on September 6, 1995

Re: Posts about the GT Frosh hitting 4 homers in a game got me thinking about

PS: One of the 18 guys who have hit 4 homers in a major league game was the

Re: Posts about the GT Frosh hitting 4 homers in a game got me thinking about

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