Whats the harder streak to beat?

Question

Cal Ripken's 2,632 consecutive games played or Lou Gherig's 56 game hitting streak?

Im sorry about that i meant Dimaggio. I duon't know why but for soe reason i always get those two mixed up. its really stupid

Answer 1

Ripken's 2632. No one will ever come close to that...

But people have come close to DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak. Some have made it into the 40's range in the past few years...one day this streak will be broken. But no one - no one - will ever break 2632.

Answer 2

First of all, it was Joe DiMaggio who had the 56 game hitting streak. I would say that any player in our era will probably not reach or break either record. First, Ripken's streak means someone has to play EVERY game in a row for a little over 16 consecutive years--no injuries, illnesses, benching. In the past several seasons, there have been only 2 or 3 players in any given year that played ALL the games. I think currently Miguel Tejada has played in about 600 straight games, so he has around 13 more seasons to play without missing a single game.
Less likely would be someone to hit in 56 straight games. The pressure, the media hype, the travel, the night games, etc. are all factors that less affected DiMaggio in 1941.

All this being said, who knows?--who would have thought that 60-70 home runs would be so easily achieved ten years ago? So maybe, some player some day might just take a crack at either of these records....

Answer 3

Kind of mixing Lou Gehrig into both questions. He held the consecutive game streak until Ripken broke it. He did not hit in 56 games in a row. It was Dimaggio. Both will never be broken. Players are not around so long as Ripken was. Too many good pitchers can shut down a team for any player to keep a streak going.

Answer 4

First of all, it was Joe Dimaggio with the 56 game hit streak, not Lou Gehrig. I think the Consecutive game streak will never be broken ever, partly because nobody will ever attempt to break it, and nobody will ever try to break it because nobody really cares that much about an insane record like that. The 56 game hitting streak is probably not going to be broken for a long time because if you think about it, thats more than 1/3 of a season. Some dude could get to 55 games and then not do it. You have such a slim chance of breaking either record because of all the things working against you. With the hitting streak, you could have a bad game, or a couple walks in a game. With the Cons. Game streak, you have to worry about illness, family problems, injury and probaly everything bad that could happen, will. Dont count on any of those 2 being broken for a long time.

Answer 5

Well the Cal Ripken streak, all he had to do was show up and play. He didn't have to have a hit, he didn't have to steal a base. All he had to do was show up.

On the other hand, DiMaggio,had to preform in each of those 56 games, but Ripken " showed up" every game for 16 years. I believe that Cal Ripken streak will last longer than DiMaggio's.
Both are remarkable.

Answer 6

You mean Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak. Difficult question to answer as each is a great feat. To play injury or illness free for over 16 years is astonishing The hitting streak is also amazing as nobody has even come within 10 games of it in 65 years so I would say they are equally difficult.

Answer 7

its joe dimaggio's 56 game hit streak and

cal ripken's is harder

unless you can play hurt and or are not injury probe

then dimaggio's is harder

thats like a 1/3 of a season of hitting

Answer 8

I believe that DiMaggio's 56 game streak will actually be tougher to break.

Gehrig is credited with playing in every game from June 1, 1925 to May 2, 1939, but only in 1931 did he actually play every inning of every game, and one game that year, he played in the outfield (Babe Ruth played first base on May 4 against the Washington Senators).

During the 2,130 game streak, Gehrig was replaced by a pinch hitter 8 times, by a pinch runner 4 times, by a first baseman 66 times... he was also thrown out of at least six games. Altogether Gehrig was replaced at first in 69 of those games, an average of once every 30 games (the individual numbers add up to more than 69, because sometimes the first baseman who replaced him was also the pinch hitter).

Ripken's streak is actually much more impressive. Not only did he shatter Gehrig's mark, but he did it while playing shortstop, a much more physically demanding position (in fact, first base is where teams will often put injured players, whose bats they want to keep in the lineup). In addition, Ripken's streak of playing every inning of every game reached 904 games, spanning just over 5 years. As noted earlier, Gehrig only played every inning of every game once, in 1931. (Baseball does not officially recognize 'consecutive innings played' records, however).

With that said, I still think Ripken's streak is more vulnerable than DiMaggio's, because human characteristics such as determination and the ability to play with pain can be applied to breaking it. On the other hand, you can't manufacture a hit by being determined.

You hear that Ripken's streak will never be broken because players today don't have that kind of dediciation, but sportswriters have been saying that about players for well over 100 years. In the 1920's sportswriters said that players of that time didn't care as much about the game as the men who played in the 1890s... sportswriters have ALWAYS been this way.

For decades, including all during my childhood, we were 'taught' that Gehrig's record was the most unbreakable record in baseball, because players of that time (70s) don't have that kind of dedication to stay in the line up that long. Cal Ripken would play his first game shortly thereafter.

Of course, if Ripken's record were to be broken, it would not be broken by an ordinary individual, who's approach to his work was the norm for the time.... but by an exceptional individual (like a Cal Ripken).

It will certainly take a while, but I think we can expect Ripken's record to be broken in the next 50 years or so... I don't think DiMaggio's will, though.

Answer 9

while playing every game for 16plus years is hard to do alls you have to do is play one inning to keep that streak alive or pinch hit one time. Both streaks will be hard to beat,but when you have to get a hit 56 straight games with todays speciality pitching. I think the consecutive game streak will be easier to break. Even though we probably will not see either streak broke in the next 50 years with medicine becoming more advanced and the dh rule in the a.A.L. the consecutive game streak will be broke first.

Answer 10

ripken's consecutive games played streak, no doubt about it. any player in the game who can stay healthy and lucky during any given season has a chance to get a hit in 56 consecutive games. it took ripken almost 20 years to hit 2632 games in a row. the nature of the sport today has players being benched just for the sake of getting rest, and how many times do you hear of a player getting the night off for a broken finger nail or a stubbed toe! they don't call it an iron man streak for nothing...