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**Loose Cannon** · 09-01-2005, 02:04 PM

yea, the Ripken streak is totally overated to me cause he clearly wasn't helping him team at all by the end. He just stayed in to break it. Gehrig was still had a good year in '38, when he had the disease in him, so I think his is more remarkable then Cal's. Then he understood during the first couple of games in '39 that he was done

Anyway, if we're just talking baseball, the greatest achievement IMO is eathier the Maddux thing, Cobb's 12 batting Titles won from 1907-1919 and he had 9 in a row, Gwynn's 19 consecutive seasons batting over .300, or Spahn's and Matthewson's 13 consecutive seasons winning 20 or more games.

I dunno, those jumped out at me. There's probably a bunch more stuff you can argue.

09-01-2005, 02:04 PM	#56
Loose Cannon I'm all there is Posts: 31,811	yea, the Ripken streak is totally overated to me cause he clearly wasn't helping him team at all by the end. He just stayed in to break it. Gehrig was still had a good year in '38, when he had the disease in him, so I think his is more remarkable then Cal's. Then he understood during the first couple of games in '39 that he was done Anyway, if we're just talking baseball, the greatest achievement IMO is eathier the Maddux thing, Cobb's 12 batting Titles won from 1907-1919 and he had 9 in a row, Gwynn's 19 consecutive seasons batting over .300, or Spahn's and Matthewson's 13 consecutive seasons winning 20 or more games. I dunno, those jumped out at me. There's probably a bunch more stuff you can argue.