If you’re a baseball fan, there’s no better time of year than now. Following a grueling 162-game season, 10 teams have advanced into the playoffs and now, after the wild card game playoffs earlier this week, eight remain. The sentimental favorite has to be the Chicago Cubs, who have not won a World Series since 1908, but Houston, a team that has never won, and the scrappy Kansas City Royals would also be popular choices.

But the playoffs aside, ponder the following baseball records, among the most amazing in sports, and try to imagine for a moment how they could ever be broken:

Number of complete games pitched in a career. That record goes to Cy Young. He started 818 games and failed to complete only 67 of them. (“Closers? We don’t need no stinkin’ closers!”). Young won a lot of those (511) but also lost a lot (316), two more records that will never be broken. Bonus points if you know the team that Young started his major league career with. Yes, that’s right, the Cleveland Spiders, and no, you’re wrong if you picked them to win the World Series this year.

Fewest strikeouts in a season (minimum 450 at bats). That record belongs to Joe Sewell, he of the Alabama Sewell baseball brothers. In 1932, Sewell struck out a mere three times in 503 at bats.  For his career, Sewell struck out 114 times in more than 7,000 plate appearances and had a lifetime strikeout rate of 1 per 62.5 at bats. Unlike Young’s record it’s conceivable that Sewell’s record could be broken, but it is hard to imagine that it ever will be.

World Series games played. And then how about Yogi Berra? The incomparable Mr. Berra passed away two weeks ago at the age of 90, having lived a baseball life that few would think possible. He didn’t resemble your 21st century, sculpted superstar, but, boy, could he play. And when those playing days were over he had hit 358 home runs, won three MVPS, and helped lead the Yankees to 13 World Series titles. And along the way he competed in an amazing 75 World Series games! Yes, again conceivable that it could happen, but, please, forward a post card from the next galaxy and tell me all about it when it does.

Go, Cubbies!