Sacred Numbers

Ask any baseball fan worth his or her slat and they'll be able to tell you the significance of the following special baseball numbers:

.406


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Ted Williams hit .406 for the Boston Red Sox in 1941. No player has hit .400 since.


56

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Joe Dimaggio hit in a record 56 consecutive games - a record that still stands today.