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Total includes 15 triples in his one year in the Federal League, giving 167 triples in his Major League career. The 1901–1903 records for a single season are included because some historians do not recognize any record set prior to the "modern era" which began in 1901.
Below is the list of 112 instances in which Major League Baseball players have hit 20 or more triples in a single season. Active players are in bold.However, with the retirement of Curtis Granderson in 2020, as of May 2020, none of the players on this list are currently active players in MLB.
Records Player # Season Refs Games Maury Wills: 165 1962: Highest batting average Tetelo Vargas.471 1943 [1] Most singles Ichiro Suzuki: 225 2004 [2] Most doubles Earl Webb: 67 1931 [3] Most triples Chief Wilson: 36 1912 [4] Most home runs Barry Bonds: 73 2001: Most runs batted in Hack Wilson: 191 1930 [5] Most hits Ichiro Suzuki: 262 2004 [6 ...
The first triples champion in the National League was Ross Barnes; in the league's inaugural 1876 season, Barnes hit fourteen triples for the Chicago White Stockings. [2] In 1901, the American League was established and led by two members of the Baltimore Orioles : Bill Keister and Jimmy Williams each had 21.
Of the 162 Major League Baseball players who have hit 100 or more triples, 69 are members of Baseball's Hall of Fame. [7] Hall of Famer Sam Crawford of the Detroit Tigers holds the Major League Baseball triples record, with 309. [8] [9] Second to him is his Tigers teammate, [10] Ty Cobb, with 295, the American League record. [11]
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Triples have become somewhat rare in Major League Baseball, less common than both the double and the home run. This is because it requires a ball to be hit solidly to a distant part of the field (ordinarily a line drive or fly ball near the foul line closest to right field ), or the ball to take an irregular bounce in the outfield , usually ...
MLB record. 36 triples, single season; John Owen "Chief" Wilson (August 21, 1883 – February 22, 1954) was an American professional baseball right fielder.