Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game marks the first of two for both teams in the Harvard Invitational tournament. On Sunday, Harvard faces Monmouth, which holds the nation's longest current winning streak at 11 for Division I schools, and Columbia plays Boston College, while Monmouth and B.C. face each other tomorrow...
Despite all the hoopla, there are a few things quite odd and unsettling about the streak itself...
From a purely baseball point of view, it is difficult to place Cal's record on a par with Aaron's home run record or DiMaggio's hitting streak for one reason: these other players actually had to perform on the field to achieve their marks...
...entirely different question is whether Cal, as he claimed repeatedly, always put the welfare of the team before the streak...
There must be many men and women who can make similar claims, all of whom must have gotten pretty annoyed when they saw the nation's fascination with the streak...