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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 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.
Since then, Gibson not only holds the new record for career batting average, but also the records for career OPS with 1.177 and slugging percentage with .718, as well as the single-season records in all three categories. Gibson set the both single-season records for OPS and slugging in the 1937 season with 1.474 and .974, respectively, and the ...
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.
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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.
His 16 triples led all major league players, and was the second time he led the National League in triples. [4] He ended 1971 with career highs in doubles (33) and total bases (281). He batted .309, his third straight season topping .300. For the second time, he posted double-figure totals in doubles, triples, home runs and stolen bases.
He led the American League in triples five times, including an American League record 26 triples in 1914. On August 23, 1913, Crawford hit his record-breaking 245th career triple in the first game of a doubleheader against the New York Yankees. He remains the all-time major league leader, retiring with 309 triples in his career.