"Baseball is much more than statistics."
This is very true. However, I believe you started this thread alleging Joltin' Joe was king due to theis very statistic - a 56 game hitting streak.
I'll repeat my earlier post, with comps among the greats, that because DiMaggio made authoritative contact [with some element of power], as evidenced by his HR/K % @ 98%, that took his potential for such a record from random possibility
to realized accomplishment.
He had two things going for him: a tendency to prefer free-swinging to walks PLUS an unanny ability to make contact, with authority [more liners, blasts and grass-cutters, than bloops and cans of corn].
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