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In baseball, a player earns a Triple Crown when he leads a league in three specific statistical categories in the same season. The term "Triple Crown" generally refers to the batting achievement of leading a league in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in (RBI) over the same season.

How does a player get the Triple Crown?

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The Triple Crown is "awarded" (received or honored with as no physical award exists) to the hitter who leads his own League in all three of these hitting statistics: 1: Home runs. 2: Batting average. 3: Runs batted in.

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Has anyone won 2 Triple Crowns?

Rogers Hornsby and Ted Williams were the only two players to win two Triple Crowns. Only once, in 1933, was the Triple Crown won in both leagues in the same year: Jimmie Foxx in the American League and Chuck Klein in the National League.

How rare is a Triple Crown in baseball?

Twenty-seven players have won the Triple Crown, making it one of the rarest accomplishments in all of baseball. Of those 27, just five have occurred in the post-integration era (1947-present): Ted Williams (1947), Mickey Mantle (1956), Frank Robinson (1966), Carl Yastrzemski (1967) and Miguel Cabrera (2012).

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What is the rarest triple play in baseball?

Unassisted triple plays

The rarest type of triple play, and one of the rarest events of any kind in baseball, is for a single fielder to complete all three outs. There have only been 15 unassisted triple plays in MLB history, making this feat rarer than a perfect game.

Why are triples so rare in baseball?

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 against the wall, away from a fielder.

Who is the greatest Triple Crown winner?

Records. Secretariat holds the stakes record for each of the Triple Crown races, the Kentucky Derby (1:59 2/5), the Preakness Stakes (1:53), and the Belmont Stakes (2:24). At 18, Steve Cauthen became the youngest jockey to win the Triple Crown, riding Affirmed in 1978.

Are any of Secretariat's offspring still alive?

Secretariat had more than 650 registered foals when he died, the last group born in 1990. Today, there are two living Secretariat offspring: 34-year-old Border Run and 33-year-old Trusted Company, both of whom celebrated birthdays on Jan. 1, reports Thoroughbred Racing Commentary.

Who was the last player to hit Triple Crown?

Miguel Cabrera is the most recent batting Triple Crown winner, achieving it in 2012; the first since 1967.

Why is it so hard to win the Triple Crown?

The difficulty in horse racing's Triple Crown is that the races are at different lengths, at different tracks, requiring different combinations of talents (just like baseball's Triple Crown), with different sets of competitors. Fresh challengers who haven't run in the previous races pop up.

Who was the last player to bat 400?

400. On September 28, 1941, the last day of Major League Baseball's regular season, the Boston Red Sox's Ted Williams gets six hits in eight at-bats during a doubleheader in Philadelphia, boosting his average to . 406.

What is trifecta in baseball?

noun [countable] 1. a bet in which the first, second and third place winners are picked in the correct order.

What's the bonus for winning the Triple Crown?

If the same jockey won a second race during the same annual series then the Chrysler vehicle would be given to the winning trainer. The $5,000,000 Triple Crown bonus was never paid, as there were no Triple Crown winners between 1978 and 2014.

Who has the most batting titles ever?

Ty Cobb won more batting titles than any other player, though the precise number is unclear because of the race in the 1910 American League.

Has anyone won the Triple Crown and not the MVP?

Since 1920 when Major League Baseball began recording RBI as an official statistic, there have been nine players who've won the Triple Crown. Of those 11 total wins, Ted Williams (1947, 1942), Lou Gehrig (1934) and Chuck Klein (1933) did not win the MVP of their respective leagues in the same year.

What is the fastest horse in history?

Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989), also known as Big Red, was a champion American thoroughbred racehorse who is the ninth winner of the American Triple Crown, setting and still holding the fastest time record in all three races. He is regarded as one of the greatest racehorses of all time.

Who is the greatest horse of all time?

Secretariat (1973)

Along with Man o' War, he is considered to be the best horse of all time. Even ESPN counted Secretariat as on of the Top 50 Athletes of the 20th Century during their countdown in 1999. As a two-year-old, he won six of eight starts, with one being via disqualification at the Champagne Stakes.

What disease killed Secretariat?

After his racing career, Secretariat stood at stud at Claiborne until he was 19, when he died of laminitis, an incurable condition affecting a horse's hooves. Secretariat's grave is located in an understated horse cemetery, past two brick pillars with granite roosters atop them, behind Claiborne's main office.

Why was Secretariat so fast?

Secretariat was so fast because he had outstanding conformation, an unusually large heart, and exceptional stride length.

Why was Secretariat euthanized?

Swerczek had been difficult to reach the day Secretariat was euthanized due to being with his son, Michael, who had been critically injured in an automobile accident.

Why is Man O War better than Secretariat?

Improvements in drainage technology and the practice of hosing down the dirt have made racetracks faster; Man o' War ran on shoes made of steel versus Secretariat's lightweight aluminum; and the Man o' War typically carried extra weight to give his opponents a chance of winning.

What is the rarest type of hit in baseball?

Rarest of all is the unassisted triple play by an outfielder, performed only once in professional baseball history, by Walter Carlisle. It is possible for a team to score on a triple play, but that is also phenomenally rare.

Has anyone ever hit two triples in one inning?

That's only happened seven times in MLB history, with the most recent coming in 1993 when the Phillies' Mariano Duncan accomplished the feat. Only one of those, Mark Lemke in the 1993 NLCS, was a switch-hitter like Marte. But both of Lemke's triples came as a left-handed hitter.

Has anyone ever hit two triples in a game?

Jim Golden (1962) is the last pitcher to hit two triples in one game. The modern record (since 1900) for triples in a game is three, last done by Yasiel Puig (2014).