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- When Joe DiMaggio hit
- safely in 56 straight
- games during the 1941
- season, he set a major
- league record that may
- never be broken. The closest any other player
- has come is 44 games, and two National
- Leaguers share that mark: "Wee Willie"
- Keeler (in 1897) and Pete Rose (in 1978).
-
- The 1941 streak is famous, but JoeΓÇÖs first
- hitting streak, in 1933, was also spectacular.
- As a 19-year-old minor leaguer, Joe hit in 61
- straight games for the San Francisco Seals.
- He set a Pacific Coast League record that
- remains to this day.
-
- ΓÇ£JoltinΓÇÖ" Joe enjoyed at least two other
- great streaks during his career: He
-