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STREAKS Good or bad, fans are attracted to feats extended over consecutive games.(baseball fans)
Luck is often a big factor in determining uninterrupted success or failure of a player or team
WHEN IT COMES TO OBSERVING, recording and celebrating or occasionally deploring streaks of achievement or failure, even those that are exceptionally obscure or embarrassingly negative, no other sport equals baseball.
This season, the media herd, as it always does, is dutifully noting a multitude of winning, losing, hitting, pitching, fielding and less obvious streaks, whether strung together like beads on a necklace by individual players or teams. It doesn't matter whether a streak is considered good, bad or indifferent. It almost demands to be revealed.
...- Who has the major-league record for the longest Consecutive-Games Run-Produced...
- Magazine article from: The Baseball Research Journal Krabbenhoft, Herm June 22, 2009 700+ words
...leaders for the longest consecutive-games run-batted-in...on the number of consecutive games for producing at...known streak for most consecutive games scoring a run in...Rolfe of the 1939 New York Yankees and by Kenny...
- KING OF THE SCREWBALL HUBBELL DOMINATED WITH `UNNATURAL' PITCH TO WIN 24...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Ringo, Kyle July 16, 2001 700+ words
...between innings. Former New York Giants ace Carl Hubbell...Hubbell once won 24 consecutive games, a streak that began...of 19 held by former New York Giants pitcher Rube...undefeated in 16 consecutive games. He ran into trouble...
- One season in purple could bump Ironman; Jim Marshall's consecutive-games...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Zulgad, Judd September 7, 2009 700+ words
...has appeared in 336 consecutive games.) The fact Favre...performance with the New York Jets. He had surgery...this season. The consecutive games streak is the easiest...anywhere from 270 to 282 consecutive games. That's because...
- Ripken Breaking Gehrig's Consecutive Games Streak Continues to Lead Balloting...
- Press release article from: Business Wire September 27, 2002 700+ words
...Writers & Columnists NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE...breaks Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played record (1995...Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees retires from...Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees establishes...
- Ripken to become a world-record holder He will surpass Kinugasa's consecutive...
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel TOM HAUDRICOURT June 14, 1996 700+ words
...September surpassed the record for consecutive games played in the major leagues (2,130) established by New York Yankees legend Lou Gehrig, is set...from breaking the record of 2,215 consecutive games played by Sachio Kinugasa for the...
- RIPKEN'S STREAK IS OVER 2,632 CONSECUTIVE GAMES PLAYED.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) September 21, 1998 700+ words
...on Sunday, Cal Ripken Jr. rested. After playing in more consecutive games than anyone in major league baseball history - 2,632...contention and playing their final home game against the New York Yankees, he decided to end the string that began May 30...
- Meanwhile... What's Happened Elsewhere Since Cal Ripken Began His Consecutive...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post July 31, 1994 700+ words
...was injured in football, retired from football, got an artificial hip and made a comeback in baseball. + 29 different players started at shortstop for the New York Mets (through Wednesday's games). SOURCE: Washington Post research.
- New York City Grabs Olympic Rings.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News November 3, 2002 700+ words
...along to "New York, New York." The IOC will pick...1964 World's Fair that New York would benefit from a...Games is Turin, Italy. New York's ability to score...be reluctant to award consecutive Games to North American cities...
