Streaking: DiMaggio And Probability
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 16:07
in Mathematics & Economics
With the World Series upon us, again, it is time to consider baseball's improbable events, like the four home run game (15)[1], the perfect game (18), and the unassisted triple play (15, maybe 16). Alone in the annals of baseball improbability is The Streak. THE STREAKIn 1941, Joe DiMaggio recorded a record 56-game hitting streak. It is widely regarded as the one baseball record that will never be broken. The great emergent property himself, Steven Jay Gould, considered The Streak to be the greatest record in sports history[2] due to it's statistical unlikelihood. read more
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