Hack Wilson wrote:In Moose's entry, the "49 - Musial, Stan (1946), Pittsburgh Swashbucklers," was a Musial card on one of my teams. I would not have noticed if I hadn't checked the Leaders page. That may be one issue. How many times do we all check the Leaders page? Maybe some great exploits in this regard have gone unnoticed.
I think most of us routinely look at the Player Batting and Player Pitching pages -- Leaders seems less popular, maybe. What do you think?
I have been thinking for a while that it is a real possibility a consecutive streak might get overlooked. If Barry Bonds pops 114 HR, everyone sees it on the Player Batting page. But a hitting streak just might go unnnoticed. Still, it would seem to me that if a streak got into the 40s, somebody in the league would be likely to pick up on it, and the league would start to follow it. Even so we can't be sure that there isn't a 57+ game streak by someone buried somewhere in past, on what is now a long-gone Leader Board.
Still, HBP used to only be recorded on the Leader Boards, and we have plenty of Hughie Jennings exploits in Moose's record books.