The 14 Most Unbreakable Records in American Sports

A few of these have stood for over a century and nobody has come close. The rest only look safe until somebody has a very good season.

1

Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak

Set in 1941; the closest anyone has come since is Pete Rose's 44 games in 1978.

1000pts

2

UCLA's 88-game winning streak

John Wooden's teams went unbeaten from 1971 to 1974 across three seasons.

695pts

3

Byron Nelson's 11 straight wins

Won eleven consecutive PGA Tour events in 1945, a streak nobody has half-matched.

579pts

4

Richard Petty's 200 NASCAR wins

Won 200 Cup races and seven championships; second on the list sits at 105.

525pts

5

Johnny Vander Meer's back-to-back no-hitters

Threw no-hitters in consecutive starts in 1938; no pitcher has repeated it.

463pts

6

Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game

Scored 100 against the Knicks in 1962; Kobe Bryant's 81 in 2006 is the nearest attempt.

463pts

7

Secretariat's 2:24 Belmont

The American record for a mile and a half on dirt since 1973; nobody has come within a second.

392pts

8

Bill Russell's 11 championships

Won eleven NBA titles in thirteen seasons with the Boston Celtics.

392pts

9

Cy Young's 511 wins

Retired in 1911 with 94 more wins than anyone else has managed in the 115 years since.

392pts

10

Nolan Ryan's seven no-hitters

Three more than any other pitcher, thrown across nineteen years and four different teams.

309pts

11

Ted Williams' .406 season

Batted .406 in 1941; nobody has reached .400 in the 85 years since.

309pts

12

Bob Beamon's 1968 long jump

Jumped 8.90m in Mexico City, beating the world record by 55cm in one attempt.

211pts

13

Wayne Gretzky's 2,857 points

Scored more career points than any player has managed goals and assists combined since.

93pts

14

Cal Ripken Jr's 2,632 straight games

Played every game for over sixteen seasons, ending a streak that began in 1982.

93pts