2006-09-27 09:13:51 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
There have been a few distant close calls, but so far it likes it will stand for a long time to come. If it ever is broken, I hope that it will be a Yankee to do it.
2006-09-27 10:16:07 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Possibly but in today's era things are different. Back in Dimaggio's day, scorers could get away with giving hits on plays that should have been errors, fielders were slower and not as talented and most importantly, pitchers were actually pitching to him EVERY time because they wanted to see the streak go on longer and did not want to be the pitcher to end the streak (I'm not making this up, its on the Ken Burns Baseball history DVD collection). This contrasts with today's game where pitchers will hit players to END their streaks and have a much greater focus on winning the game rather than letting somebody else get a record. Dimaggio lived in the perfect era to get the streak and basically a .270 hitter today probably could have hit a streak just as long as that if they had the luxury of facing the pitching and defense that he did.
2006-09-27 16:15:08 · answer #2 · answered by miamiman 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. And for the record the professional record might be 62 but the MLB record stands at 56. If you want to count Dom's record then you have count the Japanese player Sadahara Oh's record of 800 + career home runs as a record. 56 is the record and won't be broken.
2006-09-27 09:28:20 · answer #3 · answered by D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probably not in our lifetime. Think about hitting in 56 consecutive games. That's a lot of games to hit safely in. Afte Joe's streak was over he hit in another 16 games. Amazing
2006-09-27 09:30:46 · answer #4 · answered by Oz 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, too many players now take games off in terms of their mental approach to the game. They do not have what it takes to get a hit for 56 or more straight games. It is a very daunting task to hit in that many successive games. Another thing is that the competition is much greater now.
2006-09-27 10:53:26 · answer #5 · answered by Tommy D 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I say that it will.....but for the record his longest hitting streak was not 56 it ws 62 with the San Francisco Seals while in the minors.......his brother Dom I understand has the longest on the Red Sox 30++.......going to be hard but someone will someday.......tell Lord Worple( Byron Nelson) that it was not 18 in a row he won 18 that year 11 in a row.....but for the record I think Babe Dedrikson Zaharis has the golf record of 17 in a row......
2006-09-27 09:18:23 · answer #6 · answered by Mickey Mantle 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I don't think so. You never know who will come along in the future but to me if it was going to happen it would have been someone like Pete Rose or Tony Gwynn. I don't think it's enough just to be someone that hits for a high average, you have to be able to use the whole field and even most of the high average guys are pull hitters. Therefore, I don't think it will be broken. At least not in my lifetime.
2006-09-27 10:18:04 · answer #7 · answered by shominyyuspa 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There's a better chance of DiMaggio's record being broken than the golfer Byron Nelson's record being broken. Nelson, who died yesterday, aged 94, won 18 straight tournaments in 1945.
2006-09-27 09:17:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I highly doubt it. That record is simply out of this world! Can you imagine...56 game hitting streak!?
2006-09-27 10:19:37 · answer #9 · answered by JistheRealDeal 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
no i twont be broken becasue the ptiching in the pros these days are twice maybe three times aas good as it was when dimagio played, they throw twice as fast and have more selection of pitches. And in the past 15 years no player has reached above 40 games, so no way will it be broken.
2006-09-27 09:35:52 · answer #10 · answered by TheRealDeal 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No...joe dimaggio's swing can never be matched
2006-09-28 05:48:35 · answer #11 · answered by modeledge 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋