It's been a pretty long-standing record now -- Joe DiMaggio hit for 56 straight games back in 1941 -- 66 years ago. Since DiMaggio's streak, only one player has even hit in 40 straight games -- Pete Rose who went for 44 straight in 1978. And no, this isn't just a slow sports day where I'm breaking out the bar discussions. This issue was
raised by Giants outfielder Randy Winn, whose spectacular 20-game hitting streak gives him the right to speak about the challenge of hitting in 56 straight:
"Sure," he said. "Nobody thought Lou Gehrig's consecutive-games streak would be broken. A lot of people didn't think Babe Ruth's home-run marks would be broken and a lot of people didn't think Hank Aaron's mark would be broken. There are probably people who never thought Pete Rose would break the hits record, or that anyone would ever get 4,000 hits again. It seems that eventually all of those have fallen, so why not DiMaggio's?"
Dude, you got a third of the way to DiMaggio, and you're telling me it's going to fall? These days we're lucky if a player just makes his way into the lineup 56 straight games. To get at least a hit in each one? Lots of things in the game would have to change. I'm going to have to go ahead and say no, this isn't going down.
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