Zvon wrote: Lefty Specialist wrote: In 1978, Rose tied the NL-longest hit streak at 44 games at Shea, I believe. This. I was at the game. Holmes happened to be there because he worked for the Mets front office at the time. Well, not exactly. As stated above, he didn't tie Wee Willie Keeler at Shea. (Keeler had the all-time National Leage record with 44 games.) At Shea he passed Tommy Holmes, who had the "modern" (meaning 20th Century) record of, I think, 37 games.