The Most Impressive All-Time Career Record In Sports Is......

[HacheMan]

what & by what player in your opinion?

 

[JakeT.]

Pete Rose's hits

 

[onemwtheone]

56

 

[fivestarjake]

16

 

[wilheim]

All-Time Career Pitching Wins - In my opinion, if there is ever a record that won't be broken it is this one. Cy Young ended his career with 511 career wins. For a pitcher, that is unheard of! He is 96 wins in front of the second place win holder, Walter Johnson.


wil.

 

[TomGshotput]

Micheal Jordan, NBA Finals MVP six times

 

[steaktartar]

all the old pitching records cant be broken it is a different game now.....to go along with cy young also jack chesbros 41 wins in a season has zero chance to be broken a pitcher wont ever start that many games

 

[TomGshotput]

The likelihood of being broken has little to do with how impressed I am. Cy Young played a game so far different than what it is being played today against such inferior athletes that, while I give him credit, I am far less impressed by his records than Barry Bonds'. Some people might not be impressed because of drugs. But a lot of the drug culture impresses me, especially when someone is able to abuse drugs so heavily and still be such productive members of the workforce

 

[Cusipz]

Agree-the old pitching records don't make any sense these days.

But, Cal Ripken's streak, in the "modern era" is insane and no one will come close.

 

[HacheMan]

I think one of the most overlooked & underrated is John Stockton owning not only the All-Time assist record, but the All-Time steals record as well.

That's both sides of the ball.......

 

[WorldNumberOne]

wilt averaging over 50 a game

gretzky scoring something like 214 points one year .

byron nelson winning 11 tournaments in a row .

 

[Mistermj]

Bart Starr...5 World Championships, including a 3Peat.

 

[festeringZit]

[ Pete Maravich *averaging* the equivalent of 50+pts per game for
his whole NCAA career, taking into account the fact that there
was no 3 pt line back then ]
Modern life is great, but watching LSU's Maravich -- crazy

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<!-- T11382456 --><!-- Sesame Modified: 02/16/2009 01:54:32 --><!-- sversion: 11 $Updated: ssaraf$ -->[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] You were born too late. Sorry about that. But so was I. [/FONT]
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</td> <td width="15"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="175"> Maravich owns the NCAA scoring record with 3,667 points. (US Presswire) </td> <td width="15"> </td> </tr> </tbody></table>[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] We were born in time to experience lots of cool stuff, like the Mazda RX8 and YouTube and LeBron James. So it hasn't been a complete loss. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] But we were born too late to experience Pete Maravich at LSU. And if you don't know why that's a tragedy, then allow North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough and Stephen Curry of Davidson to demonstrate. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Hell, allow Curry to discuss. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] "I've only seen him on tape," Curry said of Maravich. "I wish I could have watched him do his thing. He was crazy." [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Crazy in the best possible way. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Curry is on pace to challenge, maybe, Maravich's career NCAA scoring record of 3,667 points. For that to happen, Curry (2,416 career points through Saturday) would have to return immediately from the ankle injury that knocked him out of Davidson's game Saturday, then maintain his current scoring average of 29.1 ppg -- which leads the country -- for the rest of his junior season ... and then return for his senior season and do it again. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Hansbrough, a senior, isn't going to come close to Maravich's ridiculous scoring total, but he will approach 3,000 points for his career, which is ridiculous in its own right. Only six players have scored 3,000 points in Division I, and none since Alphonso Ford of Mississippi Valley State finished his career with 3,165 points in 1993. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] The 3,000-point club will grow to seven if Hansbrough (2,604) becomes its first new member in 16 years, and to do that he'll need to slightly increase his season scoring average of 21.8 ppg for the rest of the season, assuming the rest of the season sees North Carolina going deep into the ACC and NCAA tournaments. If all of that happens, Hansbrough could reach 3,000 points. Maybe. At the end of his fourth season, all of them as an All-American. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Remember, Maravich scored 3,667 points. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] And he did it in three years. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Crazy. And we missed it. Well, I did. I was born in April 1970, weeks after he finished his final season at LSU. You missed it, too, if you're younger than about 50. This being the Internet, that means most of you. If you're old enough to have seen Maravich in the SEC, congratulations. Please tell the rest of us about it in the message boards below. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] As for me, I've been reduced to video and the litany of books written about Maravich, including the one sitting on my bedside table, Maravich by Wayne Federman and Marshall Terrill. The book is absurd, describing as it does the life of Maravich, which reads like fiction in lots of places, and science fiction in others. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] He was from another planet, Pete Maravich, and his extra terrestrial show was the biggest draw in the South. Before games he would throw in shots from half-court and conduct the LSU layup line like Meadowlark Lemon of the Harlem Globetrotters, hitting players with crazy passes off his knee or elbow. During games he would score 50 or 60 points. After games, of course, he would be besieged by autograph seekers. With his floppy hair and incomprehensible talent, he was basically a basketball Beatle. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] To get to 3,667 points in three seasons, Maravich had to average 44.2 ppg for his career. Freshmen weren't eligible in those days, so in his debut sophomore season he averaged 43.8 ppg. He averaged 44.2 ppg as a junior and 44.5 as a senior, and craziest of all, he did it well before the 3-point line was introduced to college basketball. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Maravich scored in all sorts of ways, but one of his favorite ways was from the perimeter. Historians who have watched every one of his games at LSU have said he probably made six or seven 3-pointers per game, so do the math. An extra six points per game multiplied by his 83 career games at LSU would have given him another 500 points in three seasons -- or more than 4,100 career points. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] In three years. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] If you can't wrap your brain around that, wrap it around this: Kentucky's Jodie Meeks set an Arkansas arena record Saturday with 45 points. He hit seven 3-pointers, which means that in Maravich's era, Meeks would have scored 38 points on Saturday. And 38 points wasn't even an average day for Maravich. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Crazy. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Or wrap your brain around this: Stephen Curry is the most durably prolific collegiate scorer of our lifetime, but he has a chance to reach Maravich's 3,667-point milestone only with two enormous advantages: One, he would have to play four seasons of college, one more than Maravich. Two, he has averaged close to four 3-pointers per game. Had he played in Maravich's era, before the 3-point arc, Curry wouldn't be able to come within 500 points of Maravich's record -- not even in four seasons. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] And that's not a shot at Stephen Curry. I love Stephen Curry, platonically speaking. I like Tyler Hansbrough, too. Great college players, great college scorers. Fun to watch. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] So how much fun to watch was Maravich? [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] What did we miss? [/FONT]
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[JohnnyMac]

Armstrong's 7 Tours in a row.

 

[nymets69]

Secretariat winner of the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths

 

[HarryCaray]

Fifty f'in Six

 

[chick'sfridge]

"wilt the stilt" ......20,000

 

[hacklimit]

Michael Phelps -- 8 gold medals, one bong hit

 

[Akillies]

gretzky scoring records
setting the season points record akin to hitting 100 homers in a year

 

[Akillies]

pistol was sick, thinking back i cant recall ever seeing him live on tv. Only taped highlights, back in those days not much coverage of college hoops like there is today and the sec was not a major player in college hoops.

44 pts per game and the best part of his game was passing.