Sports Feats that will probably never be duplicated
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LakeLivin
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Looking at the modern era, Ron Guidry's 1978 pitching season is unlikely to be duplicated. In 35 starts he went 25-3 with 9 shutouts, 16 complete games, an era of 1.74, and 248 strikeouts, including an 18 s.o. game. He was remarkably slight for a power pitcher, listed as 5'11" and weighing only 160 lbs. And it's not like he had a powerhouse team behind him. That year the Yankees won at an 86% rate when Guidry started but only 55% when someone else did.
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Rulon Gardner winning the 2000 gold medal in Greco Roman wrestling--or more precisely his win combined with the accomplishments of the man he defeated, Aleksandr Karelin--who was undefeated for 13 years and HADN"T GIVEN UP A POINT in six years.
Yeah, that was just nuts. Karelin was a straight up scary dude on the mat.
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Rickey Henderson's 130 stolen bases in '82 would put him at #22 in terms of active stolen bases. His top 3 seasons would put him at #1.
Pretty sure 1400 is going to be good for a while.
Pretty sure 1400 is going to be good for a while.
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His games played is half of Murphy’s. I discredit this based on too small of a sample size.
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Bob Gibsons 1.12 ERA for a season (live ball era) for a starter is going to be hard to beat. Because of that season MLB lowered the height of the pitching mound by 5” to its present height of 10”
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David Ayres coming in as EBUG for the Canes on HNIC playing most of the game and getting the actual win in a matchup of 2 eventual playoff teams. Even if EBUGs were allowed to continue, I don't think we'd ever see that happen again.
tarheelhockey
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The circumstances of doing it in Toronto on HNIC is just mind blowing when you really think about it. The chances of it happening at all are infinitesimal, now divide that by 30 and divide again by 6 to get the chances of it happening on a Leafs HNIC home date.
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Don Bradman's test cricket batting average: 99.94
I literally don't give a f*** about cricket but that's so dominant it may be the greatest feat in sports history.
I literally don't give a f*** about cricket but that's so dominant it may be the greatest feat in sports history.
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John Stockton would have the NBAs assists record even if he didn’t play the last 6 season of his career.
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... and thusly Dreadlock Holiday by 40cc starts playing in my head backwards and distorted.
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Emma Radacunu winning 3 qualifying matches and 7 additional matches on her way to a U.S. Open title without losing a set!
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Thornton Melon performing the only Triple Lindy ever recorded in a diving meet for Grand Lakes University in 1986.
Wilt Chamberlain’s off court “sports” activity.
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A team like Leicester winning the Premier League in 2015/16 is probably not happening again anytime soon.
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The Wilt Chamberlain Headboard Scoreboard.
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Richard Petty’s 200 NASCAR Grand National wins will probably never be equaled
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Only one regular season college football game ever had the President of the United States present to present the AP National Championship Trophy to the winner. That was the 1969 Arkansas vs Texas game in which Texas won 15-14 and was presented the National Championship Trophy by President Nixon after thegame
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Feats that will never be duplicated? Let's hope so:
There have been three players named "Aurelio" to play in MLB. All three died young (late 40s/early 50s) in car-related accidents. (Two crashes, one hit-and-run.)
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en.wikipedia.org
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There have been three players named "Aurelio" to play in MLB. All three died young (late 40s/early 50s) in car-related accidents. (Two crashes, one hit-and-run.)
Aurelio Rodríguez - Wikipedia
Aurelio López - Wikipedia
Aurelio Monteagudo - Wikipedia
Vagrant
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tiger williams scored 241 goals in his career and had 3,971 penalty minutes. with the way the game is going its hard to see that being accomplished again.
one of the interesting/weird things about sports is that prior to using a level of optimization that seem like common sense, there were so many oddball records that came from how casually the game was played in previous generations. like the pitching records in MLB. nobody was throwing full effort all the time and the mechanics were a lot less stressful on the body. when hitters with no real danger were up to the plate, it wasn't uncommon for them to be pitched batting practice caliber pitches and because the floor of talent in the league was so shallow, it wasn't a problem. now that pitching has basically maximized the load limit of the ligaments in the arm by reaching 100+ mph and even spin rate on breaking pitches requiring max effort, arms would literally snap off before being able to throw as many innings as the old timers used to throw. the funniest part is people calling pitchers "soft" these days for not being able to achieve those feats.
hockey is the same. the lack of optimization allowed guys like gretzky to score in torrents because defensemen were barely tolerable skaters and teams had two lines that probably weren't AHL caliber by today's standards. goalies hadn't thought to drop down to stop shots and everybody was out there in awful equipment that weighed 100 lbs. full of water. that's when your outliers truly were able to shine. they were just players ahead of their time.
basketball was the same. tall centers with athleticism were indefensible. steve kerr hit 45% of his career 3 point attempts and for whatever reason, nobody tried to maximize that by allowing him to shoot 15 of them per game. he would hit huge shots down the stretch of games and it was like he was some secret weapon off the bench as illogical as that sounds. it's laughable by today's standards and in another timeline, maybe we consider steve kerr among the best to ever play.
the remarkable thing about all this is that it's just a matter of perspective. these things that are self-evident now weren't even a consideration at the time. the evolution of computer based outcomes has changed the way everything operates. I think we're very close to the extent of which the human body is capable of without AI assistance or biological modification, and the conspiracy theorist in me believes there are some damn close things happening out there in secret among the top tier of the top tier somehow biologically maximizing their bodies to perform at absurd levels late into their careers.
one of the interesting/weird things about sports is that prior to using a level of optimization that seem like common sense, there were so many oddball records that came from how casually the game was played in previous generations. like the pitching records in MLB. nobody was throwing full effort all the time and the mechanics were a lot less stressful on the body. when hitters with no real danger were up to the plate, it wasn't uncommon for them to be pitched batting practice caliber pitches and because the floor of talent in the league was so shallow, it wasn't a problem. now that pitching has basically maximized the load limit of the ligaments in the arm by reaching 100+ mph and even spin rate on breaking pitches requiring max effort, arms would literally snap off before being able to throw as many innings as the old timers used to throw. the funniest part is people calling pitchers "soft" these days for not being able to achieve those feats.
hockey is the same. the lack of optimization allowed guys like gretzky to score in torrents because defensemen were barely tolerable skaters and teams had two lines that probably weren't AHL caliber by today's standards. goalies hadn't thought to drop down to stop shots and everybody was out there in awful equipment that weighed 100 lbs. full of water. that's when your outliers truly were able to shine. they were just players ahead of their time.
basketball was the same. tall centers with athleticism were indefensible. steve kerr hit 45% of his career 3 point attempts and for whatever reason, nobody tried to maximize that by allowing him to shoot 15 of them per game. he would hit huge shots down the stretch of games and it was like he was some secret weapon off the bench as illogical as that sounds. it's laughable by today's standards and in another timeline, maybe we consider steve kerr among the best to ever play.
the remarkable thing about all this is that it's just a matter of perspective. these things that are self-evident now weren't even a consideration at the time. the evolution of computer based outcomes has changed the way everything operates. I think we're very close to the extent of which the human body is capable of without AI assistance or biological modification, and the conspiracy theorist in me believes there are some damn close things happening out there in secret among the top tier of the top tier somehow biologically maximizing their bodies to perform at absurd levels late into their careers.
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