re: Where does Rickey's stolen base records rank on the can't be broken list?

Stolen bases is theoretically possible. Game would have to change back to small ball, but that wouldn't require a complete change in the game.

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Joe DiMaggio’s record of 56 consecutive games with a base hit will never be broken.

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I dont find this record to be completely unattainable like some of the others listed

Which today’s so called specialty pitchers this record will be hard to break. Back in those days each batter saw pitchers like 3to4 times each game. Now we have what they call a “quality start” stat for pitchers how go 5 innings and are gone do at best you see the same pitchers maybe three times a game. Plus the unrelenting pressures of today’s media will be almost unbearable for almost any player trying to focus on this. This is not really a record but I want to see ANY player come close to Babe Ruth’s numbers of 1921. I just don’t see it happening.

Another record I have not seen yet in this thread is Hack Wilson’s 190 RBI’S in 1930. I don’t see anybody touching that the way the game is played today.....

Bob Gibson’s 17 Ks in a World Series game has been tough to break. Only El Duque and Kershaw came close to breaking it.

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1995 Nebraska team didn’t allow a single sack all season.

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That will be tough to break. Although you could say, if a team plays more games than Nebraska did, it would be broken depending of the wording of the record. An option style offense that never throws the ball is a candidate

Tommie Frazier passed the ball 177 times vs running 111 times. You're only wrong by a factor of 2000%

In 13 games Air Force only allowed 4 sacks

Jack Taylor pitched 187 consecutive complete games between 1901-1906. That one feels pretty safe

I think pre-war baseball records are safe.

DiMaggio’s record is breakable. It just takes an incredible amount of luck, and the right kind of hitter. Today’s game doesn’t value contact hitters as much. It’s gonna take an Altuve or Ichiro type of hitter.

Modern era (or at least a guy who played in my lifetime), that Nolan Ryan strikeout record is incredible. The role of starters has completely changed since he retired.

Rickey’s record is in the discussion with a record like Nolan’s, and Randy Johnson’s CG SHO. The game has changed, and until there’s a dedicated base stealer with unheard of speed, nobody will come close to Henderson.

He was also a very underrated hitter.