The record number of
baseball games
Cy Young won in his storied career
back in the day,
widely considered an
unbeatable feat. The
modern saying goes, "Win
20 games for 20
seasons, and you'll still be
111 wins shy of
Cy."
As of this post, Greg Maddux has 243 wins. Roger Clemens has 264. They have nine Cy Young Awards between them, but still aren't good for one Cy Young's worth of wins (though that will change in the near future).
Will anyone ever be able to break the 511 mark, ever? Most say "no". With good cause, too. If a starting pitcher stays healthy all season nowadays, he can start around 35 games. Suppose a supremely dominant pitcher on a team with a potent offense comes along and stays healthy all season. He can probably win...say, 27 games. Let's further say that he gets discovered early and starts pitching in the majors when he's 18. Let's go on to say that he pitches for a perennial power, never gets traded or decides to become a free agent, never gets injured or loses the power in his arm. He'll be able to break Cy's mark in under 19 seasons, when he'll be around 36. That is the only reasonable scenario in which 511 can be surpassed, and it requires a magnificent confluence. But it's still not quite impossible.
511 is also the position of "Alex Chilton" by The Replacements on CFNY's Top 1002 New Rock Songs of all-time.
And it deserves to be about 510 positions higher.