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Baseball Trivia: "Career" Triple Crown Winners

By Tim Zinnecker

An earlier post raised the topic of Triple Crown winners -- a player who, in a single season, leads his league in homers, runs batted in, and batting average.   The great Carl Yastrzemski was the last player to achieve this accomplishment, in 1967.  Only ten other players have won the Triple Crown since 1900:  Rogers Hornsby (2x), Chuck Klein, and Joe Medwick in the National League, and Nap Lajoie, Ty Cobb, Jimmy Foxx, Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams (2x), Mickey Mantle, and Frank Robinson in the American League.

Nine other players have achieved the "career" Triple Crown, leading the league in those three offensive categories, but not in the same single season (e.g., home run and RBI leader in one year, and batting average leader in a different year).

How many of the nine can you name?

Pictured:  Rogers Hornsby, from the Topps 2009 "Career Best Legends" 15-card set.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on July 25, 2009 (boomark / email).