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Posted By: jay behrens

DiMaggio's streak is an amazing thing. But at the same time, it's an abosulte freak record on apar the Nuxhall's back to back no hitters. If I remember correctly, DiMaggion only had one other hitting streak over 20 games and that was immediately following the 56 games. The next longest is 44 games by Rose. Another expample is players like Hugh Duffy batting .438 and getting anywhere close to the record.

MAybe some day when I get ambitious I will run the numbers to see that the standard deviation of hits per game is for DiMaggio and other great hitters. You would think that Cobb would have had more numerous long hitting streaks.

Jay