Saturday, May 9, 2020

List of baseball hitting triple crown winners


Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Charles Conlon

This post is a list of baseball hitters who have achieved the triple crown as of May 9th, 2020. To achieve the triple crown, a player must lead their league in home runs, runs batted in and runs in a single season. There are 18 seasons listed below. The photo above is Rogers Hornsby in 1920. Data source: Wikipedia

  • Paul Hines (1878)
  • Tip O'Neill (1887)
  • Hugh Duffy (1894)
  • Nap Lajoie (1901)
  • Ty Cobb (1909)
  • Heinie Zimmerman (1912)
  • Rogers Hornsby (1922)
  • Rogers Hornsby (1925)
  • Jimmie Foxx (1933)
  • Chuck Klein (1933)
  • Lou Gehrig (1934)
  • Joe Medwick (1937)
  • Ted Williams (1942)
  • Ted Williams (1947)
  • Mickey Mantle (1956)
  • Frank Robinson (1966)
  • Carl Yastrzemski (1967)
  • Miguel Cabrera (2012)