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Monday, June 27, 2005

10 Most Unbreakable Sports Records

A list was recently created on AskMen.com for the Top 10 Most Unbreakable Sports Records. I thought it was a pretty cool list of sports feats.

10. Rocky Marciano's 49-0
9. Michael Schumacher's 7 championships
8. Ty Cobb's .366 career batting average
7. Nolan Ryan's 7 no-hitters
6. Wayne Gretzky's 215-point season
5. Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point night
4. John Wooden's 88 straight wins
3. Cy Young's 511 wins
2. Jerry Rice's 22,895 receiving yards
1. Cal Ripken's 2,632 consecutive games
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Who else do you think should have made the list?

1 comment:

Chang Kim said...

Here are my thoughts:

Ripken is beatable. Unlikely, but beatable. Just takes some luck. Horrible choice for #1, in my opinion.

Rice is also beatable. Lame #2.

Cy Young's 511 would be number one on my list. It's a different game now.

Wooden's 88 straight is pretty untouchable as well. No one bought players the way he did.

Wilt is literally untouchable. Both the 20,000 women and the 100 points in a single game. Never going to be touched, ever.

Gretzky has more career assists than any other player has points!!! That means you could take away Gretzky's 900 goals (also a record that won't be touched), and he'd still have the most points ever. And the way hockey is played now (when it is played at all), no one will come close to his goals, assists, or points records. They'd need to change the rules.

7 no-hitters is absurd. Probably won't be touched, but it's not out of the realm of reality like #'s 3 through 6.

Ty Cobb...again, done in an era when the sport was entirely different, so probably untouchable.

7 championships doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility. Definitely impressive and unlikely to be broken, but unbreakable?

49-0 is attainable. What is this doing in the top ten?

If you want to talk about unbreakable records, Johnny Vandermeer's 2 straight no-hitters is untouchable. It can be tied, MAYBE, but it will NEVER be broken. No one will ever get three straight. :)