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15 (Possibly) unbreakable sports records

1974yankees said:
Barry Bonds "Home Run" record is a complete fraud so it does not really even count....Exactly why he will never get in the hall of fame..

Pete Roses total hit record should be on the list because that will never be broken...Too many injuries.
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If a player averaged 200 hits a year, for 20 years, he would still be over 200 hits short of reaching Pete's record.
 
Cy Young will not be challenged. The hits record, games played and HR in a season have all be challenged so I could see them eventually going down. No track record is unbeatable. Track athletes are just getting better and better and it seems like they always find a way to move on to the next level in that sport. No one will play long enough or enough games to beat LeBron and if a team had a great player and their only goal was to have that player score 100 it could be done but not in the normal confines of a game.

In most sports the "rest" players "need" will prevent a lot of the longevity records from being broken. If you really dug into sport you could probably find 15 more records even more remarkable, like the squash record. I didn't even know squash was a college sport.
 
victor64 said:
If a player averaged 200 hits a year, for 20 years, he would still be over 200 hits short of reaching Pete's record.
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Exactly. It will never be done. I think Jeter had around 3600 hits give or take..

Another record that will never be broken is Cal Ripkins most games played streak. Not in a million years with all the injuries and games off..

As for the Home Run record I believe Aaron Judge probably has it now because Sosa and Mcguire were tainted with steroids too....

But Pete Rose should have been put in the HOF for his on field accomplishments.
 
ed4ourgirls said:
I never realized that Joe DiMaggio looked so much like Ted Williams. :rolleyes:
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Twins. It was really Ted Williams who did the commercials for Mr Coffee and the Bowery Bank. :D And if you remember those commercials you are older than dirt
 
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ConnMotors said:
Cy Young’s number of wins and Cal Ripken Jrs games played in a row will never be broken. As for UConn’s 111 game win streak that will be broken and it will be more than likely done by UConn once again.
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I like the way you think.;)
 
Several of these will be broken. Those MOST likely to be broken, in order, would be Bolt's 100 time, Bonds HRs, UConn wins, Phelps' medals. Among those LEAST likely to be broken, again in order, include Youngs' 511 wins, Ryan's strikeouts, Ripken's games, and Woods' cuts made. Interestingly, there is one record that will not be broken that is never included in this type of article. Mantle's 18 world series home runs. Playoff HRs - certainly - but WS... no. If there were playoffs in the Mantle era, he'd have at least doubled that number if not tripled it.
 
geordi said:
Several of these will be broken. Those MOST likely to be broken, in order, would be Bolt's 100 time, Bonds HRs, UConn wins, Phelps' medals. Among those LEAST likely to be broken, again in order, include Youngs' 511 wins, Ryan's strikeouts, Ripken's games, and Woods' cuts made. Interestingly, there is one record that will not be broken that is never included in this type of article. Mantle's 18 world series home runs. Playoff HRs - certainly - but WS... no. If there were playoffs in the Mantle era, he'd have at least doubled that number if not tripled it.
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Just curious, if there were playoffs in his era, his total would be 18 or below - not greater than 18, right? The likelihood of making the world series diminishes with more playoff rounds therefore only lessoning the chances for WS appearances. What am I missing?
 
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One of my favorite records -- set by my all-time favorite baseball player -- is Hank Bauer's consecutive-game hitting streak in the World Series -- 17.
 
2 consecutive no-hitters by Johnny Vander Meer.

Only one guy has ever come very close to tying this record (can't remember who). I know the guy took the 2nd no hitter into the 9th, not sure how many outs he got before someone got a hit.

But I would say that anyone getting THREE major-league no-no's in a row is about as likely as me beating Usain Bolt's 100-meter record while dragging 500 pounds, going backwards on hands and knees.
 
Pete Rose doesn't even hold the record: Ichiro got 4367 hits. Many of these supposedly unbreakable records (like Cal Ripken's) themselves broke records that were considered unbreakable (Gehrig). The only one of those 15 which is utterly out of the question, unless baseball undergoes a radical change, is Cy Young's 511. When Connecticut won 90 straight, how many people thought it would be broken again so quickly?
 
geordi said:
Several of these will be broken. Those MOST likely to be broken, in order, would be Bolt's 100 time, Bonds HRs, UConn wins, Phelps' medals. Among those LEAST likely to be broken, again in order, include Youngs' 511 wins, Ryan's strikeouts, Ripken's games, and Woods' cuts made. Interestingly, there is one record that will not be broken that is never included in this type of article. Mantle's 18 world series home runs. Playoff HRs - certainly - but WS... no. If there were playoffs in the Mantle era, he'd have at least doubled that number if not tripled it.
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"Bonds HRs" ? Sorry to disagree lol.

Or the real Record Judge set 2 years ago?
 
Bigboote said:
Yeah, Mike Powell’s long-jump record will stand longer than Bolt’s 100. The closest non-wind-aided jump other than his was Bob Beamon’s in 1968.
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Beamon's 29 foot jump was done in the thin air of Mexico City in 68. Did it make a difference? THAT will be debated for years to come.
 
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Blue Huskie said:
Breaking the Huskies record of 14 consecutive final fours might be pretty tough as well.
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or UConn women's record of 16 consecutive wins in Elite Eight games other than by the UConn women themselves, as it is still an active streak. Current 2nd place in active streaks for this category: South Carolina at five is Dawn Staley & South Carolina.

Go Huskies, extend that streak!!!!
 
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Bigboote said:
Yeah, Mike Powell’s long-jump record will stand longer than Bolt’s 100. The closest non-wind-aided jump other than his was Bob Beamon’s in 1968.
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Bob Beamon's was at 6000+ feet above sea level in Mexico City. Need some supplemental O2 therapy, amazing talent, and training in New Mexico (similar elevation in Albuquerque)...
 
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Forego said:
Twins. It was really Ted Williams who did the commercials for Mr Coffee and the Bowery Bank. :D And if you remember those commercials you are older than dirt
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Well, I was born around the time dirt was discovered in Iowa...
 
SCHuskiedad said:
How about Cheshire High Schools girls 281 straight swim dual meet victories over 25 year span?
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or Carmel H.S., IN girls just won their 39th straight State Championship in Feb, 2025 (current streak) which probably be broken next year by them as well. They just scored 448 points... so wherever they get beat, it will probably be unbreakable.
 
The CDR-Ret said:
or Carmel H.S., IN girls just won their 39th straight State Championship in Feb, 2025 (current streak) which probably be broken next year by them as well. They just scored 448 points... so wherever they get beat, it will probably be unbreakable.
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MaxPreps has that state-title streak of theirs as the 2nd-longest all-time. Jackson Prep in Mississippi won 45 straight state titles in boys/girls combined swimming from 1974-2018.

www.maxpreps.com

High school sports programs with the most consecutive state championships

MaxPreps News - Five programs actively working on title streaks of more than 34 years.
www.maxpreps.com www.maxpreps.com
 
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Semi-off-topic since this is a record of consistent strong performance but no championships, But Linfield College, now a D3 college in Oregon, hasn't had a sub-.500 season in football since 1956. Most of those years have been well above .500, winning almost 82% of their games in total.

They've made a number of deep runs in the playoffs, but no cigar. They've been in the national playoffs for their division 33 times in those 65 years without a title. One of these days...
 
AidanFan20 said:
Semi-off-topic since this is a record of consistent strong performance but no championships, But Linfield College, now a D3 college in Oregon, hasn't had a sub-.500 season in football since 1956. Most of those years have been well above .500, winning almost 82% of their games in total.

They've made a number of deep runs in the playoffs, but no cigar. They've been in the national playoffs for their division 33 times in those 65 years without a title. One of these days...
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This didn't quite sound right to me, I was sure they had won Championships. According to google they did in '82, '84 and '86 when they were in NAIA and in 2004 in NCAA D3.

I actually went to a game there once. Happened to be staying nearby temporarily and it was football season, so I figured I should do it while I had the chance.
 
The craziest thing to me about the 111 is that it of course ended with that overtime loss to Mississippi State. And it started after an overtime loss to Stanford (following a 40-0 season).

UConn actually went 208 games in a row without losing in regulation - which began with a Skylar Diggins loss in the 2013 Big East finals until a loss at Baylor on Jan. 3, 2019
 
Rather than Bolt’s 100m record, they should have posted the women’s record. FloJo set the current record, 10.49, in 1988. It was a full quarter of a second better than the record that Evelyn Ashford set four years earlier. Evidently there’s some controversy whether it was wind-aided.
 
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