RECORDS THAT WON’T BE BROKEN. With the Major League Baseball All Star game tonight I'm not dealing with a record that won’t be broken. I want to concentrate on a mark that will never be attained again and that an MLB player hitting .400 in a season.

The last time that occurred was in 1941. Boston Red Sox OF Ted Williams had a .399 BA heading into the last day of the season. All he did was go 6-for-8 in a double header to post a .406 BA.

Four players since then have flirted with the magical .400. San Diego Padres OF Tony Gwynn came the closest hitting .394 in 1994. Kansas City Royals 3B George Brett hit .390 in 1980 and Minnesota Twins 2B Rod Carew batted .388 in 1977.

Also posting a .388 BA was Williams again and here is the simply amazing rest of that story. The Splendid Splinter accomplished this feat in 1957. That’s 16 seasons later that included missing 3 full seasons as a military aviator in World War II. Then parts of 2 more when #9 was recalled to military duty flying 39 combat missions during the Korean War and was forced to crash land on one sortie due to enemy fire. That borders on the impossible.

With today’s analytics driven “swing for the fences” approach to hitting and the use of multiple pitchers with all of them throwing in the 90+ mph range or higher during a contest I don’t believe we’ll see another .400 hitter in The Big Leagues again. Buddy it’s possible but extremely unlikely.

BOOK IT DANO!