what baseball record do you think will never be broken or broken for along time?

Question

heres the records i think will never be broken.
1. nolan ryans 7 no hitters
2.cal ripken jrs. iron man record
3.nolan ryans strikeout record 5700
4.rickey hendersons stolen base record 130
5.hoss radburns 60 wins in single seaon

i say nolans strikeout and no hit records are harder because the closest guys to the strikeout record ar3e johnson and clemens with 4000.
i dont think the no hit record willl be broken most guys are lucky to have 3 no hitters in there careers

Answer 1

Cal Ripken Jr

2,632 Consecutive games played

Answer 2

Rickey Hendersons singles season stolen base record of 130 will NEVER be broken.

Consider this, nobody has stolen 100 or more bases since hendersons did in 1987. Actually nobody has stolen 80 or more since Hendersons in 1988. In the 90s baseball shifted from speed to power. And I don't think it will ever shift back.

Hoss Radburns 60 single season will record will also never be broken. Back in Hosses time (1880s) most pitcher pitched on just two days rest. So a pitcher bakc then could get 70 or 80 starts a season. But today, pitcher need 4 or 5 days rest which only gives them about 35 starts a season.

Answer 3

Least likely to most likely to fall.
1) Ripken's iron man - expaination not needed.
2) Radburns 60 wins - pitchers don't even get that many starts in a season let alone wins
3)Ryan's strikeouts - pitchers don't pitch much more than 6 innings now. They only have 2/3 of a game compared to Ryan.
3) Henderson's stolen bases
5) Ryan's 7 no hitters - difficult to break but the most likely in my opinion.

Answer 4

All of those will never be broken, and Rickey's single season is the only one in any jeopardy (like 1% chance "jeopardy"). Let's not forget Rickey's career record for steals, whatever that may be, single season batting average record (.438 in 1894 by Hugh Duffy -- forget that, nobody'll even touch Ted Williams .406), single season triples (36, Sam Crawford), Dimaggio's 56 game hit streak (well, if Ichiro gets REALLY hot, he's got about 1 in 100 chance), Nolan Ryan's all time walks record, Walter Johnson's career shutouts (110), Bob Gibson's single season ERA (1.12, 1968), and last but not least, Bobby Cox's all time ejection record (look how long it took for him to catch John McGraw). The "unbreakable" record that has the most chance of being broken comes with a few "if"s -- Pete Rose's all-time hit record. IF Ichiro stays healthy. IF he wants to play as long as Grandaddy Julio does. IF he wants to break it. IF he never decides to be a power hitter instead (didn't he just say he could hit 40 if he dropped his avg. to about .250?). And many more IFs.

Oh yeah, and Johnny Van der Meer's back to back no-hitters, which even he would have to admit was an accident.

Answer 5

I'd have to say Cy Young's 511 wins will never, ever be broken. If You're a pitcher and averaged 20 wins over 20 seasons, that's only 400 wins. He also had ove 200 losses.

Next on the list would be Johnny Vandermeer's back-to-back no hitters. For this to be broken you'd have to pitch 3 consecutive no hitters.

A more obscure record would be Connie Mack's managing the same team for 50 years. That'll never happen again.

Also, the Phillies 23 game losing streak is not impossible bot pretty damned hard unless you're trying.

Answer 6

I think Hoss Radburn and 60 wins in a single season is by far the hardest, most pitchers don't even have 60 STARTS in a season, so it's impossible pretty much.
Next would be Cal Ripken Jr.'s iron man record.
It may be broken but not for a long time after Miguel Tejeda had to end his streak due to a hand injury.

Answer 7

Of the ones you list, 60 wins in a year seems least likely to fall. Starting pitchers only start 35 games a year now. There would have to be a fundamental change in the way pitchers are used for anyone to even have a chance to challenge this record.

Ripken's record is great, but the game wouldn't have to change for someone to break the record. It would take an amazing person to do it, but that's the great thing about sports. There's always an amazing person right around the next corner.

Other answers that would require huge changes in the game have already been mentioned: Cy Young's wins and losses, as well as complete games and batters faced, John Coleman's 48 losses in a season, and Will White's 680 innings pitched in a year all seem unbreakable in today's game. (Cy Young's career batters faced is 30,058. Nolan Ryan faced 22,575 in his 27-year career. At that rate, he would have had to have pitched for another 9 years to catch Cy.)
Single season triples, already mentioned, is astonishing to me. Owen "Chief" Wilson's 36 triples in 1912 hasn't been threatened - ever. The highest total since then is 26, and the highest total since 1950 is 21. To compare that to say, the single season hits record, it would be like Ichiro going out and getting 363 hits in a season, and no one for the next hundred years getting more than the current record of 262. And the thing is, the triples record isn't inherently unbreakable. There's nothing in the game to prevent someone from breaking it, like there is with the pitching records. But no one has come within 30% of the record since. Amazing.


www.baseball-reference.com has a terrific list of records, broken down into categories like Single-season records, Career records, active player leaders, and year-by year leaders. Great web site for baseball numbers fans.

Answer 8

Dimaggio's 56 game hitting streak
Cal Ripken Jr.'s iron man streak
Nolan Ryan's 7 no hitters and strikeout records

Answer 9

Cal Ripken and Nolan Ryan's strikeout record.

Answer 10

Cy Young's career wins, Rickey Henderson's season Stolen Base record and Dimaggio's 56 game hit streak.

Answer 11

Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak, Cy Young's 511 wins and Nolan Ryan's 5,700 strikeouts