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Tris Speaker hit 222 triples in his 21-year career. Fred Clarke hit 220 triples between 1894 and 1915. John "Chief" Wilson hit a record 36 triples in the 1912 season, retiring with 114 total. Tim Raines is the most recent player with 100 or more career triples to have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame (elected in 2017).
Total includes 13 triples in his one year in the Players' League, giving 172 triples in his National League career. Total includes 18 triples in his one year in the Federal League, giving 164 triples in his National League career. Total includes 15 triples in his one year in the Federal League, giving 167 triples in his Major League career. The ...
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.
List of Philadelphia Phillies team records. The Philadelphia Phillies have participated in 140 seasons in Major League Baseball since their inception in 1883. They are the oldest continuous same-name, same-city franchise in all of American professional sports. Through October 1, 2022, they have played 21,203 games, winning 10,019 games and ...
Defensively, Speaker holds career records for assists, double plays, and unassisted double plays by an outfielder. He held the major league career record for putouts by a center fielder (6,592) until he was surpassed by Willie Mays in 1971. [2] His fielding glove was known as the place "where triples go to die." [3]
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.
Samuel Earl Crawford (April 18, 1880 – June 15, 1968), nicknamed " Wahoo Sam ", was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB). Crawford batted and threw left-handed, stood 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg). Born in Wahoo, Nebraska, he had a short minor league baseball career before rapidly rising to the majors ...
Johnson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. After graduating from Princeton High School, he completed his education at the University of South Alabama. The St. Louis Cardinals drafted him in 6th round of the 1984 amateur draft. In 1986, he led the Class AA Arkansas Travelers with 82 runs, 129 hits, 6 triples, and a league-leading 49 stolen bases. [1]