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8 sports records that will never be broken

By Dave Stevenson

1934: American baseball player Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth, 1895 - 1948) hits his first home run during his tour of Japan at Miji Shrine Stadium, Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by New York Times Co./Getty Images)
1934: American baseball player Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth, 1895 - 1948) hits his first home run during his tour of Japan at Miji Shrine Stadium, Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by New York Times Co./Getty Images) /
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2. Cy Young’s Win Record

For a variety of reasons, it is unfathomable that any pitcher from here on out is going to come close to topping Cy Young’s 511 career wins. Even Walter Johnson fell short by nearly 100 wins. The only pitchers of the last 30 years to even get half of Young’s wins total are Greg Maddux, Roger Clemens, Nolan Ryan, Phil Niekro, Randy Johnson, Tom Glavine, Mike Mussina, Andy Pettite, and Jamie Moyer.

Why is Young’s wins record arguably the most unbreakable record in sports? Because nobody pitches enough to get close to that win total. It’s impressive if a starting pitcher gets 20 wins in a single season. A pitcher has to average 20 wins per season for 26 years in order to break Young’s record. Pitchers only pitch in at most 35 games a year. So in order to win 20 games, a pitcher has to record a win in 57 percent of their starts.

Young set the record by pitching in a lot of games over 22 seasons. He has several other unbreakable records as well. But no record of his is more impressive than his wins record. Young also won a lot of games because he threw a lot of complete games. Today’s pitchers have their bullpens blow leads. Over 90 percent of Young’s career starts were complete games.

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