A Journey to Baseball’s Alternate UniversePosted: 5 months ago by Bornbad The sport’s most mythic achievement is Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, a feat that has never come even close to being matched. Fans and scientists alike, including Edward M. Purcell, a Nobel laureate in physics, and Stephen Jay Gould, the evolutionary biologist, have described the streak as well-nigh impossible. Comments: 1 Score: [-] 83 [+].