who holds the record for longest hitting streak
Joe DiMaggio
title: No-hitter text: the Yankees team hitting streak ended in a rain-shortened official game on July 12, 1990, after . The St. Louis Cardinals have the second-longest team hitting streak in MLB history: May 12, 1919 to May 14, 1960, a period of . Among AL teams, the Kansas City Royals have the longest team hitting streak: May 15, 1973 to May 19, 2008, a period of . The longest current streak is held by the Oakland Athletics at (4103 games, including 44 postseason games) as of March 11, 2017. They were last held hitless on July 13, 1991, when four Baltimore Orioles title: Hitting streak text: a streak of 56 consecutive games in 1941 which began on May 15 and ended July 17. DiMaggio hit .408 during his streak (91-for-223), with 15 home runs and 55 runs batted in. There have been 55 occurrences in Major League Baseball where a player had a hitting streak of at least 30 games. Multiple streaks in the same season have occurred in 1922 (George Sisler and Rogers Hornsby), 1987 (Paul Molitor and Benito Santiago), 1997 (Nomar Garciaparra and Sandy Alomar, Jr.), 1999 (Vladimir Guerrero and Luis Gonzalez), 2006 (Chase Utley and Willy Taveras), and 2011 (Andre Ethier and Dan title: Hitting streak text: other cities are displayed. As above, for a multi-year streak, the single-season streak is shown in parentheses. The longest streaks in the history of Minor League Baseball and other professional baseball leagues: DiMaggio set the Minor League record as a member of the San Francisco Seals. Unrecognized by Minor League Baseball is the 69 game hitting streak by Joe Wilhoit in 1919. Wilhoit was in the independent Western League at the time and his record is considered the all-time Professional Baseball record. Hitting streak In baseball, a hitting streak is the number of consecutive official games in which a player title: Hitting streak text: average under the ruling, and Lyons' hitting streak is not recognized. Ty Cobb, Sam Rice, and George Sisler are the only players with multiple streaks of 30 games or longer. There have been 129 single-season streaks of 25 games or more. The lowest batting average ever recorded during a hitting streak of 25 games or more was .304 by Bruce Campbell in 1938. The highest was .486 during Chuck Klein's streak in 1930. Joe DiMaggio hit .408 during his record-holding 56 game streak. In probability theory, every baseball game is a Bernoulli trial in which a hitter either does or title: Hitting streak text: recognizes two hitting streak records: Longest hitting streak in one season, and longest hitting streak over multiple seasons (e.g. Rollins 2005–2006). Keeler's, Sisler's, and Rollins' streaks are listed as 44, 34, and 36 games when discussing "single-season" streaks, and 45, 35, and 38 games when discussing "multiple-season" streaks. This list omits Denny Lyons of the 1887 American Association Philadelphia Athletics, who had a 52-game hitting streak. In 1887, the major leagues adopted a new rule which counted walks as hits, a rule which was dropped after that season. Lyons hit in 52 consecutive games that season, but his streak included