Streaky Question(s) of the Day

Thursday, April 14 2011 @ 10:27 AM EDT

It was (more than) 20 years ago today ....

(That Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play? No, no, different tune ...)

Two decades plus one year ago, Cal Ripken Jr. started a streak. Not The Streak, mind you -- that was already underway -- but  in April, 1990, Iron Cal began an unprecedented 95-game streak in which he was Errorless Cal. Another  streak,  for  consecutive totalerrorless chances (431) by a shortstop., ran parallell, so it was no fluke.

Bet you didn't know that. Which leads to two related Question(s) of the Day ...

1. What's the greatest streak in baseball history? Joe D's 56-game hitting streak? Cal's consecutive games played? Larsen's 27-up, 27-down World Series game? Jim Kaat's 16 consecutive Gold Gloves? Ozzie Smith's 13 consecutive Gold Gloves at shortstop? Orel Hershiser's consecutive shutout innings streak? Be as creative as you like!
2. What's the most under-apppreciated streak in baseball history? This is a much tougher question and if examples were easy to come by, that would almost by definitiion eliminate that example. Remember Josh Johnson's 2010 eight consecutive starts giving up zero runs or one run? Me neither, but that hadn't been done in like a hundred years. So that sort of thing. Bobby Cox's managerial streak of taking 14 consecutive teams to the playoffs (granted, interrupted in 1994 by the fact there were no playoffs held) ... no need to mention the "only" one World Series title int hat time. Cal's glove streak, recognized today on its 21st birthday?

What else ya got, Bauxites?

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