1984 Tigers

[kyro]

Forgive my ignorance.

I was watching a Sox game recently, and they were discussing their record and whatnot and I thought I heard them mention that the Tigers started out the season 35-5 one year.

I figured I heard wrong so I googled and found out that, yes, the 1984 Detroit Tigers started out 35-5, and finished 104-58.

Holy Christ. That is insane. After 1/4 of the season, they were on pace to win 141 games, 25 more than the all-time record of 116. I just find it amazing that a team could put together a streak like that at all, never mind in the beginning of the season. Also, I have NEVER heard about this. I'm not a baseball fanatic, but I certainly follow it to a certain extent. Why isn't this talked about more? Will we ever see anything like that in baseball ever again?