what record in baseball will not be broken?

Answer 1

Mickey Mantle's 18 career world series home runs.

Answer 2

Yeah, Cy Young's career wins and complete games (and many of the "old days" pitching records) will likely never be broken.

Looking at modern day records, Nolan Ryan's 5,714 career strikeouts will probably stand forever. Think about it this way: In order to break that record, a pitcher would have to pitch for 22 years and he'd have to AVERAGE 259 K's per season! Ryan's totals were also helped because he pitched most of his career in the era of the four-man pitching rotation and when complete games were more common and therefore was able to rack up more innings pitched.

Barry Bond's 73 homers in a season could (unfortunately) stand forever too. A player would have to be hitting the juice pretty hard to put up those kinds of numbers and now that MLB is cracking down on steroids, it doesn't look like that'll happen again.

Answer 3

Cy Young's 511 wins and Nolan Ryan's 5,741 K's and Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streaks, NO-One has a chance to beat Sam Crawford's Single Season Inside the Park homeruns(12) and career (51), Fernando Tatis's 2 Grand Slams in one inning will never be broken, he is the only player to have done this. These are all very amazing records however there are many mor that will likely never be broken.

Answer 4

There are so many records that were set when the game was so different, that today's athletes don't have a chance at breaking them. For example:
511 wins by Cy Young. A hall of fame career for a pitcher who is part of a five man rotation will only have 500 starts in it. Much less 511 wins. I will also throw in his complete games. At 750 No way a pitcher is lucky to have 5 a year in todays game.

Stealing bases is out of style. There are really only a couple of guys competing for the SB title every year so I'll say Ricky Henderson is safe for now.

56 consecutive games with a hit in ANY era of the sport is phenomenal

If you want to talk about current records i'll go with two of them
Cal Ripken's Streak. Simply untouchable. and 262 Hits is gonna be hard to surpass, if any one does it, it will be Suzuki and it's his record to begin with.

Answer 5

I have been reading a lot of great answers to this excellent question. Numbers like 56, Joe D's, 2632, Cal R. Jr, Cyclone's 511, etc. Another one no one has yet mentioned is the Shutout record held by The Big Train - Walter Perry Johnson. He rang up 110 shutouts. As others have mentioned, because of the fast hook on starters, I doubt seriously if 110 shutouts will ever be equalled much less topped.

Answer 6

There are many, but your question asks for one, so I will give the record that is the most impossible to break, and that is 'Old Hoss' Radbourn's innings pitched record in 1884 of 678 innings, as well as his 59 wins, 75 starts, 73 complete games that year. Baseball will just never be like that again. Radbourn's team used only two starting pitchers that year, and the other one got injured midway through the year, so Radbourn pitched almost every inning of every game for the rest of the season!

Answer 7

There are a lot of really good answers to this question.

I certainly agree that Cy Young's career wins and career loss numbers will likely never be touched. 511 wins would require averaging more than 25 wins a year for 20 years.

However, the one that will NEVER be broken is Johnny van der Meer's record of TWO consecutive no-hitters. To break it someone would have to throw THREE consecutive no-hitters. That will simply never happen. Especially given how rare it is for pitchers to throw complete games at all anymore.

Answer 8

Easy. Cy Young's 749 complete games. In the day of the closers, plllllleeeeaseeeeeeee. Consider that Johan Santana, probably the best pitcher in baseball right now had 1 last year and 5 for his career, he'd only have to pitch another 700+ years. That is how unobtainable that one is. DiMaggios streak "could" fall-this one could not. Impossible.

Answer 9

The Cubs' streak of not winning the World Series. It's at 99 years and counting. On the serious side, Hack Wilson's 190 RBI. In the age of the home run; hit-and-run baseball, the sacrifice, and base-stealing have become obsolete, so there is not as many RBI opportunities.

Answer 10

The hitting streak by dimaggio, and there was one pitcher who pitched two no-hitters in a day. That will never happen in the history of baseball again. By the way Mickey Mantle's 18 world series home runs have been tied by bernie williams, for your information. But, I'am not sure if bernie will ever play in another world series.

Answer 11

Eddie Gaedel's record of being the shortest baseball player ever: 3'7"

I say this because I like to think every other record has a chance to be broken. How exciting was it when Ripken reached 2,131? See what I mean?