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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]
Brooks Robinson is the all-time leader in career games as a third baseman, playing 2,870 games at the position; [2] [3] [4] it is the most games played at a single position by any player in major league history, and exceeded the previous record at the position by nearly 700 games.
In Major League Baseball (MLB), a player in each league is recognized for leading the league in triples. [1] Only triples hit in a particular league count toward that league's seasonal lead. 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 ...
The position of the third baseman. A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in baseball or softball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base — the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run.
Brooks Robinson won 16 Gold Gloves, leading all third basemen, and is tied for the second-highest win total in the history of the award. The Gold Glove Award is the award given annually to the Major League Baseball players judged to have exhibited superior individual fielding performances at each fielding position in both the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), as voted by the ...
In baseball, a triple is the act of a batter safely reaching third base after hitting the ball, with neither the benefit of a fielder's misplay (see error) nor another runner being put out on a fielder's choice. A triple is sometimes called a "three-bagger" or "three-base hit". [1] For statistical and scorekeeping purposes it is denoted by 3B ...
The top 15 leaders in career assists at third base all reached the major leagues after 1950, and all but nine of the top 62 single-season totals have been recorded since 1957. Brooks Robinson is the all-time leader in career assists as a third baseman with 6,205, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] which was 1,624 more than any other player at the time of his ...
In Major League Baseball (MLB), records play an integral part in evaluating a player's impact on the sport. Holding a career record almost guarantees a player eventual entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame because it represents both longevity and consistency over a long period of time. (For Japanese baseball records see Nippon Professional Baseball)