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Unbelievable Hitting Streaks That Shook AL and NL Baseball History!

“The only time to worry is when you’re not hitting,” he said. “I’m not worried now – I’m happy. It’s no strain to keep on hitting. It’s a strain not to be hitting. That’s when your nerves get jumpy.”

DiMaggio hit .408 with 15 home runs and 55 RBIs across the streak. Even after it ended, he started another 16-game hitting streak. When it was all said-and-done, he had hit safely in 72 of a 73-game stretch.

Joe DiMaggio

2. 44 – Pete Rose, Cincinnati Reds (June 14 – July 31, 1978)

Rose may not have come all that close to DiMaggio’s tear 37 years earlier, but he set the modern-day mark for longest hitting streak in the National League. Perhaps what was most remarkable about Rose’s accomplishment was that he was 37 years old and supposedly near the end of his career.

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