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Major League Baseball recognizes this year of service, but this is not universally recognized by all historians. He hit 22 triples that season, giving him a National League career total of 221. Total includes 28 triples in his two years in the Players' League and American Association, giving 177 triples in his National League career.
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.
Only triples hit during the regular season are included in the totals (George Brett, Rafael Furcal, and Derek Jeter are tied for the record in post-season triples, with five). [ 13 ] Jim O'Rourke was the first player to reach the 100-triple mark, doing so with the New York Giants in 1886 . [ 14 ]
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.
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Additionally, Wilson himself never hit more than 14 triples in any other season. On top of this, no minor-league player has ever had more than 31 triples in a season, despite that level of the game having less capable defenders, many quirky ballparks (more so in past decades than today), and in some historical cases much longer seasons. [27]
The following is a list of records for a game, season, or career that were broken in each Major League Baseball season by players, teams, or others. This does not include dates when additional stats were recorded by the same player above one's own record set (unless broken by someone else in between) or records by a team that do not lead the majors.
Triples have become somewhat rare in Major League Baseball, less common than both the double and the home run. 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 ...