After a weekend hiatus, the hitting streak blog returns with some info about strike outs, or rather the lack thereof.  Here are the longest streaks this year by a player without a strikeout, only counting games where he actually had a plate appearance (apologies to Jon Rauch) :

GAMES	PLAYER	TEAM	START	END	PA
27	Orlando Palmeiro	HOU	4/23/2007	6/9/2007	40
26	David Eckstein	STL	4/6/2007	5/8/2007	106
21	Luis Gonzalez	LAD	4/29/2007	5/23/2007	81
19	Skip Schumaker	STL	4/22/2007	6/29/2007	31
19	Chris Gomez	BAL	4/25/2007	6/27/2007	58

As the record books will show, the all-time record is 115 games in a row (over 517 plate appearances) by Joe Sewell, CLE AL, 5/17-9/19/1929.  But did you know that Sewell also had streaks of:

87 games: 5/02/1925-8/01/1925 (392 plate appearances) with 0 strikeouts
86 games: 5/27/1930(G1)-4/26/1931 (315 PA) with 0 strikeouts
83 games: 9/12/1931(G2)-7/27/1932 (389 PA) with 0 strikeouts
55 games: 7/19/1931(G1)-9/11/1931 (271 PA) with 0 strikeouts

From July 19, 1931, through July 27, 1932--over a year--Sewell played in 139 games, had 666 plate appearances including 67 walks, and had just one measly strike-out.  It was on Sept 12, 1931 (G1), at the hands of Vic Frazier, who racked up a whopping 170 strikeouts for his entire career.

And the longest streaks by any active player are both by Juan Pierre:

GAMES	PLAYER	TEAM	START	END	PA
31	Juan Pierre	FLA	8/16/2004	9/19/2004	141
30	Juan Pierre	COL	6/17/2001	7/22/2001	138

And the longest by anyone in the last 50 years is:

GAMES	PLAYER	TEAM	START	END	PA
98	Nellie Fox	CHW	5/17/1958	8/22/1958	451

A Century of Cobb
Ty Cobb's Batting Line from 100 years ago:
July 17, 1907: at home vs. WAS; 0-for-4 vs. Graham