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Amazing sports records


       It is said that records are made to be broken.
​

​But some records are harder to break than others.

​ Check out this list of unbreakable
sports records.


MAJOR LEAGUE baseball

Joe DiMaggio: 56 game hitting streak (closest is 45 games by Willie Keeler)
Cy Young: 511 career wins (closest is 417 by Walter Johnson)
Old Hoss Radbourn: 59 wins in one season (closest is 53 by John Clarkson)
Walter Johnson: 110 career shutouts (closest is 90 by Pete Alexander)
Johnny Vander Meer: two consecutive no-hitters (closest are 247 pitchers with one)
Nolan Ryan: seven career no-hitters (closest is 4 by Sandy Koufax)
Pete Rose: 4,256 career hits (closest is 4,189 by Ty Cobb)
Ty Cobb: .366 career batting average (closest is .359 by Rogers Hornsby)
Cal Ripken Jr.: 2,632 consecutive games played (closest is 2,130 by Lou Gehrig)
Rickey Henderson: 1,406 stolen bases (closest is 938 by Lou Brock)

NFL football

Drew Bledsoe: 70 pass attempts in one game (closest is 69 by Vinny Testaverde)
Brett Favre: 10,169 pass attempts (closest is Payton Manning with 9,380)
Norm Van Brocklin: 554 passing yards in a game (closest are Warren Moon and
      Matt Schaub with 527)
Peyton Manning: 539 career TD passes (closest is Brett Favre with 508)
Emmitt Smith: 18,355 career rushing yards (closest is Walter Payton with 16,726)
Jerry Rice: 1,549 career receptions (closest is Tony Gonzalez with 1,325)
​Jerry Rice: 197 career TD catches (closest is Randy Moss with 156)
​Paul Krause: 81 career interceptions (closest is Emlen Tunnell with 79)

NBA Basketball

Wilt Chamberlain: 100 points in a game (closest is Kobe Bryant with 81)
Wilt Chamberlain: 55 rebounds in a game (closest is Bill Russell with 51)
Scott Skiles: 30 assists in a game (closest is Kevin Porter with 29)
Elmore Smith: 17 blocked shots in a game (closest are Manute Bol and Shaquille
    O'Neal with 15)
​John Stockton: 15,806 career assists (closest is Jason Kidd with 12,091)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: 38,387 career points (closest is Karl Malone with 36,928)
Wilt Chamberlain: 23,924 career rebounds (closest is Bill Russell with 21,620)
John Stockton: 3,265 career steals (closest is Jason Kidd with 2,684)
Hakeem Olajuwon: 3,830 career blocked shots (closest is Dikembe Mutombo with
​    3,289)

NHL hockey

Wayne Gretzky: 92 goals in a season (closest is Brett Hull with 86)
Wayne Gretzky: 1,016 career goals (closest is Gordie Howe with 869)
Joe Malone: 7 goals in one game (closest is Red Berenson & Darryl Sittler with 6)
Wayne Gretzky: 3,239 career points (closest is Mark Messier with 2,182)
Wayne Gretzky: 2,223 career assists (closest is Mark Messier with 1,379)
Wayne Gretzky: 50 hat tricks (closest is Mario Lemieux with 40)
Martin Brodeur: 804 career goaltending wins (closest is Patrick Roy with 702)
Martin Brodeur: 149 career shutouts (closest is Terry Sawchuck with 115)

FIFA WORLD CUP SOCCER

Pele (Brazil): 3 World Cup championships (20 players have won 2 World Cups)
Just Fontaine (France): 13 goals in one tournament (closest is Sandor Kocsis with
    11)
Oleg Salenko (Russia): 5 goals in one match (six players have scored 4 goals)
Pele: youngest player to score a hat trick (17 yrs old)
Hungary: 10 goals in one match (closest is Yugoslavia with 9)
Tim Howard (USA): 16 saves in one match (closest is 13 by Ramon Quiroga)
Peter Shilton (England) and Fabien Barthez (France): 10 "clean sheets" or shut-outs (3 goalies have 8 clean sheets)

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