Most Impossible too Break Baseball Records

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    Does anyone know what the rarest feat in baseball is? Hint: It's not the unassisted triple play
     
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    Hitting for the cycle?
     
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    hitting four homeruns in a game,.. or pitching a perfect game
     
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    18 players have hit 4 homeruns in a game.
    23 pitchers have pitched perfect games.
    327 players have hit for the cycle but only 4 players have done it 3 times.
    A natural cycle is hitting a single, double, triple and home run in that order. It has
    only been done 5 times.
     
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    Only 15 players have ever had an unassisted triple play. None have been catchers but I can see how it would be theoretically possible but hugely improbable.
     
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    In 1964 Houston Colt 45's pitcher Ken Johnson became the only pitcher in major league history to lose a 9 inning complete game no hitter. Pete Rose scored the winning run.
     
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    Close...The rarest feat in baseball is hitting the home run cycle (solo, 2R, 3R, GS). Its never been done in the majors. The only time in recorded baseball history that its been done was by Double A player Tyrone Horne in 1998 for the Arkansas Travelers.

    A softballer for the Arkansas Razorbacks (what is it about Ark?) did it earlier this year, but that doesn't count.
     

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