End game

You can pick just about any day of the season and find hitting streaks that began or ended on that date.  I've catalogued over 600 separate hitting streaks of 20+ games.  Three streaks ended on a July 10, but, interestingly, none have ever begun on July 10:

Ty Cobb, 23 games, began 6/16/1912 and ended 7/10/1912
Roberto Clemente, 20 games, began 6/23/1965 and ended on 7/10/1965
Edgardo Alfonzo, 20 games, began 6/10/1997 and ended on 7/10/1997

The earliest in a season that a 20+ game hitting streak was started was April 7, done twice:
Steve Garvey, 21 games, began 4/7/1978 and ended 5/2/1978
Danny Bautista, 21 games, began 4/7/2004 and ended 4/30/2004

And the latest in a season that a 20+ game hitting streak was started was October 5:
Sam Rice, 30 games, began 10/5/1929 and ended 5/17/1930.

...but Rice's streak was only for the last 2 games of 1929, and then the first 28 games of 1930.  The latest that a streak began in which the batter had at least 20 games before the season ended was Sept 10, done four times:

Pete Browning, 24 games, began 9/10/1887 and ended 10/9/1887
Barry Larkin, 23 games, began 9/10/1988 and ended 4/5/1989 (21 games to end 1988 and 2 games to begin 1989)
Bobby Bonilla, 22 games, began 9/10/1995 and ended 4/3/1996 (20 games to end 1995, 2 games to begin 1996)
Nomar Garciaparra, 21 games, began 9/10/2000 and ended 7/29/2001 (20 games to end 2000 and 1 game to begin 2001).



A Century of Cobb
Ty Cobb's batting line from 100 years ago:
July 10, 1907: at home vs. NY; 3-for-5 with a triple; opposing starter: Newton.  This was the 19th game of a 22-game hitting streak for Cobb, which lasted from 6/22-7/13/1907.

 

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