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Why Joe DiMaggio’s 56-Game Hit Streak Is So Enduring

Changes in baseball, particularly the handling of pitchers, diminish chances of matching the Yankee Clipper’s feat

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Seventy-five years ago this Sunday, Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio bashed the first hit of his record-setting 56-game hitting streak. No one else has come close to his mark, and changes in Major League Baseball make it less likely that anyone ever will.

“If anybody could have done it, it would have been Pete Rose, and he didn’t get there,” said Keith Hernandez, a commentator for the New York Mets television network and a former slick-hitting...

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