[Gerribase]

Joe D's 56 game hitting streak. Nigh-impossible.

Cal Ripken's games played streak. Highly unlikely.

Single Season wins by a pitcher.
All time: 59 by "Old Hoss" Radbourn in 1884.
"Modern Era" 41 by Jack Chesbro in 1904.

Unbreakable without a sea change in the way baseball is played. Pitchers nowadays make a maximum of 33 starts per season.

-Arrian

[JonDopl]

Sounds amazing, but that was rather recently done. Why unbreakable?

-Arrian

[Essefsbyday]

Ok.

Another baseball one:

Nolan Ryan's strikeouts. His no-hitters too (SEVEN!?!)

-Arrian

[Diortarkivoff]

File under "Unlikely".


Because of the large fuel consumption of its rocket engine, the X-15 was air launched from a B-52 aircraft at about 45,000 ft and speeds upward of 500 mph. The airplane first set speed records in the Mach 4-6 range with Mach 4.43 on March 7, 1961; Mach 5.27 on June 23, 1961; Mach 6.04 on November 9, 1961; and Mach 6.7 on October 3, 1967. It also set an altitude record of 354,200 feet (67 miles) on August 22, 1963, and provided an enormous wealth of data on hypersonic air flow, aerodynamic heating, control and stability at hypersonic speeds, reaction controls for flight above the atmosphere, piloting techniques for reentry, human factors, and flight instrumentation. The highly successful program contributed to the development of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo piloted spaceflight programs as well as the Space Shuttle program. The program's final flight was performed on October 24, 1968.

[xIuvyAuT]

[Stainditnew]

I think a lot of MLB career pitching records will not be broken after the last of the current old men retire.

With the constant pampering of pitchers, most of the old records will stand forever.
I still like the Nolan Ryan (is it nuprin) commercial.
After a start he'd take a single yellow pill and everything would be OK.

[Jimambol]

Cy Young's win total of 511 will never be broken.

And it'll be incredibly hard to break Pete Rose's 4256 hits.

[Elelaytet]

Yeah,
But if one does fall, i bet it will be the hit record.

[wllsqyuipknczx]

Originally posted by BlackCat
MIGHT be broken, but it won't be easy.

The quickest goal in a World Cup finals match, as recognised by FIFA, is 11 seconds, scored by Hakan Sukur of Turkey against Korea Republic at Daegu, Korea on June 29, 2002. Fastest ever World Cup goal scored by San Marino against England ( ) after 8 seconds. It may even have been a Stuart Pearce own goal....

[LICraig]

NHL: Fastest 3 goals in one game: 21 seconds, Bill Mosienko (1952)
NHL: Most points (career): 2856, Gretzky
NHL: Most assists (career): 1962, Gretzky
NHL: Most goals by a rookie (season): 76, Teemu Selanne (1992-1993)

All of those are pretty solid. They have their nearest competitors beat by 50% or more.

[Rupeviv]

Kobe put up 81 in a game last season, so I wouldn't close the door on that one completely (though it does seem unlikely)

Also: Batting average (career): .366, Ty Cobb

[Aswdwdfg]

Ooooohhh....thought of a couple more:

NHL: Most shutouts (career): 103, Terry Sawchuk
NHL: Most consecutive Stanley Cups: 5 (1956-1960)

EDIT: forgot to say who won the most consecutive Stanley cups. It was, of course, the Montreal Canadiens

[AnetTeilor]

The flying finn has bossy beat by 43%

Sorry for the overstatement

[RadcliffXX]

And Ron Francis' 1249 assists are beat by 57%

[HaroldMY]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
And Ron Francis' 1249 assists are beat by 57% 1250/1962=63.7%

So he got him beat by 36.3%

Spec.

[gugamotina]

In other words, you got 70% of my total, but I got 143% of your total. So I have you beat by 43%.

[Pszinygv]

Depends on how you look at it. If you have 76 goals, which would be 100% and I have 52, then you got me beat by 32%.

If my 52 goals equal 100% then yes, you are right.



Spec.

[scewDeasp]

Originally posted by Kontiki
It doesn't really depend on how you look at it, it depends on whether you can do math. Ummmm, not if you can but on how you do your math. Both ways are good. Only playing with KH that's all.

Bossy had 32% less goals, or Temmu had 47% more goals.



Spec.

[forexsoft]

Greatest weight lifted by nipples: 21.9 kg (48 lb., 4.2 oz.), by Sage Werbock

[RadcliffXX]

Originally posted by Spec
Temmu had 47% more goals ...which is what I said (43% by the way)