Bumstead (07-18-2013),New York Red (07-18-2013)
Sam Crawford's 309 career triples.
Look at the all-time triples leader list sometime. I think Clemente is the only guy who played in the last 50 years to be in the all-time top 50 list.
Carl Crawford is the active leader w 116.
Always Red (07-18-2013)
I am pretty sure Eddie Gaedel's record will last forever.
Then there are the records that are not just improbable, but impossible to break:
Most RBI earned in a single at bat: 4 (Held by Travis Wood, tied with some others)
Most outs recorded in a single at-bat: 3
.. and so on.
Last edited by Brisco; 07-18-2013 at 04:22 PM.
Chief Wilson's 36 triples in a season.
Most wins by a pitcher in a season – 59
Set by Old Hoss Radbourn, in 1884. I think that record is pretty safe...
Yep, it's crazy. Other pitching records, like complete games, shutouts, etc, are equally untouchable. Cy Young pitched 7356 innings. Second on the IP list is 6003. In today's game, you'd have to play 20+ years just to reach 5000, and that's only if you lead the league in IP almost every year.
Having seen Rose amd Aaron and Ryan and Henderson and Hersheisher and Ripken and McGuire and Bonds in my lifetime, I've learned to never say never.
But 511 wins looks pretty safe to me.
She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning
A few other records unlikely to be broken are:
680 innings pitched in one season, held by Will White in 1879
0.857 ERA by Tim Keefe in 1880
42 times caught stealing by Rickey Henderson in 1982-few players even try to steal 42 times a season anymore
457 total bases by Babe Ruth in 1921
122 errors committed, a record shared by Herman Long (1889) and Billy Shindle (1890)
110 shutouts in a career, set by Walter Johnson
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
Just wait until the Calvin Ball Era rewrites all the records.
RichRed (07-18-2013),The DARK (07-19-2013),vaticanplum (07-18-2013)
My absolute favorite baseball record is Hack Wilson for single-season RBIs. There's historically been disparity over whether he hit 190 or 191 and I'm not sure where it currently stands (woy?)
The reason I love it is because it's not a record in which circumstances needed to achieve it have changed radically, such as many of these pitching records we mention. And it doesn't seem *utterly* out of reach, like back-to-back no-hitters...but it would be very, very difficult for someone to reach it. It's also just such a funny stat, because of course it's not entirely in a batter's control and a lot has to come together for it, but you can still look at 190 RBI and know that someone is a crazy good hitter who had a crazy good season.
I have always had a huge soft spot for Hack Wilson. Believe it or not, I'm really fascinated by a lot of those early 20th-century Cubs teams, really up until their last trip to the World Series.
There is no such thing as a pitching prospect.
Red Raindog (07-18-2013)
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