Most Consecutive World Series Games With a Hit (Individual Player)
Record Holder
Metric
Date Achieved
Location
Atlas Record ID
Hank Bauer
17 games
3 October 1956 to 2 October 1958
New York, New York and Milwaukee, Wisconsin [USA]
20425009
Record Narrative
It began on October 3, 1956, at Yankee Stadium — the Bronx trembling with October noise beneath the smoke of a thousand cigars. Hank Bauer, square-jawed veteran of the Pacific War, stepped to the plate against the Brooklyn Dodgers. The first pitch cracked through the night air, and with one swing he began a conversation that would last seventeen games and produce twenty-four hits.
While others were anointed as legends, Bauer worked in the shadows of routine excellence. His business was contact.
Over the next three Octobers, he faced the most merciless pitchers the sport could conjure — Don Newcombe’s fastballs that cracked like dry branches, Don Drysdale’s anger, Warren Spahn’s looping craft, Lew Burdette’s cunning control, Bob Buhl’s steady menace. Each sought to end him, to write the clean line of failure in the book. Yet game after game, Bauer answered with sound — the sharp, undeniable report of leather meeting wood.
The World Series does not forgive; it parades only the elite, the pitching aces who dismantle illusions. Yet for seventeen games over three years, Hank Bauer never went 0-for-anything.
Seventeen games.
By October 2, 1958, at County Stadium in Milwaukee, the conversation reached its final stanza. Bauer lashed two more hits through the Wisconsin air, extending his streak to seventeen before the silence arrived two days later.
In baseball, failure is the native tongue; even the greats spend their lives negotiating with it. But Bauer — a Marine before he was a Yankee — did not negotiate. He carried the discipline of survival into the batter’s box. Each swing was a continuation of his wartime creed: Improvise, Adapt, Overcome.
While Mantle and Berra captured the headlines, Bauer anchored the invisible rhythm — the leadoff man who met every dawn of every game with defiance. His achievement is not a story of spectacle but of persistence: a furnace that burns quietly, powered by the labor of repetition.
Between New York and Milwaukee lies the map of his endurance.
Between those two Octobers lives a streak that defied the pitcher, the crowd, and time itself.
He did not chase immortality. He produced it, one swing at a time.
Transparent Adjudicator's Statement
Summary of Claim
The claim asserted that Hank Bauer recorded at least one base hit in seventeen consecutive Major League Baseball World Series games between 3 October 1956 and 2 October 1958, thereby establishing the longest verified hitting streak in World Series history.
Evidence Submitted
Evidence reviewed included official MLB World Series box scores from 1956 through 1958, historical broadcast footage for contextual reference, newspaper archives including the New York Times and Associated Press, and statistical logs from Baseball-Reference, Baseball Almanac, MLB historical data services, and the Society for American Baseball Research Game Project.
Comparative and Cross-Archive Benchmark Review
The Atlas adjudicator team reviewed more than twenty recognized baseball record repositories and historical databases. No inconsistencies, conflicting statistics, or superior streaks were identified. All independent datasets confirmed the seventeen-game sequence as the longest consecutive World Series hitting streak recorded for an individual player.
Verification Methodology
The Atlas adjudicator team conducted a systematic review of seventeen consecutive official World Series box scores spanning the 1956, 1957, and 1958 championships. Each game was examined to confirm that Hank Bauer recorded a minimum of one base hit. Data was cross-checked across multiple independent statistical archives to ensure consistency and eliminate discrepancies. Historical newspaper coverage and official postseason logs were used to corroborate game outcomes and participation. All statistical findings were aligned chronologically to verify the uninterrupted nature of the streak across three consecutive World Series.
Adjudication Findings
Primary statistical verification confirmed that Hank Bauer recorded at least one base hit in each of seventeen consecutive World Series games beginning 3 October 1956 against the Brooklyn Dodgers and concluding 2 October 1958 against the Milwaukee Braves. No conflicting data was identified in any official or independent archive. Historical comparison established that the previously recognized benchmark was thirteen consecutive games, attributed to Billy Martin. Bauer’s seventeen-game streak surpasses that benchmark by four games.
Conclusion
Atlas World Records hereby certifies that Hank Bauer achieved the record for Most Consecutive World Series Games With a Hit with seventeen consecutive games recording at least one base hit between 3 October 1956 and 2 October 1958 while playing for the New York Yankees. This performance stands as the longest verified hitting streak in World Series history.