Hitting Triple Crown

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In baseball, the Triple Crown refers to:

   1. A batter who (at season's end) leads the league in three major categories -- home runs, runs batted in, and batting average.
   2. A pitcher who (at season's end) leads the league in three major categories -- earned run average, wins, and strikeouts.

In the popular imagination, the Triple Crown is often thought of as the epitome of excellence in batting or pitching (even though sabermetric categories claim to be better measures of a player's productivity than the traditional Triple-Crown categories). The batting Triple Crown is the more difficult achievement, and has not been achieved since 1967. Generally, when the "Triple Crown" is referred to without specifying batting or pitching, the batting Triple Crown is meant.

Batting

    * Last Triple Crown winner: Carl Yastrzemski, BOS, 1967.
    * Last American League Triple Crown Winner (lead AL in all 3 categories): Carl Yastrzemski, BOS, 1967.
    * Last National League Triple Crown Winner (lead NL in all 3 categories): Joe Medwick, STL-N, 1937.
    * Only Two-Time Winners: Rogers Hornsby, STL-N, 1922, 1925; Ted Williams, BOS-A, 1942, 1947.

Pitching

    * Last Triple Crown Winner: Johan Santana, MIN, 2006.
    * Last American League Triple Crown Winner (lead AL in all 3 categories): Johan Santana, MIN, 2006.
    * Last National League Triple Crown Winner (lead NL in all 3 categories): Randy Johnson, ARI, 2002.
    * Most Triple Crowns: Grover Cleveland Alexander, 4 (PHI-N, 1915, 1916, 1917; CHI-N, 1920).

Batting Triple Crown winners

edit National League winners

Year Batter Team HR RBI AVG

1878 Paul Hines Providence 4 50 .358

1894 Hugh Duffy Boston 18 145 .440

1922 Rogers Hornsby St. Louis 42 152 .401

1925 Rogers Hornsby St. Louis 39 143 .403

1933 Chuck Klein Philadelphia 28 120 .368

1937 Joe Medwick St. Louis 31 154 .374

 American League winners

Year Batter Team HR RBI AVG

1901 Nap Lajoie Philadelphia 14 125 .426

1909 Ty Cobb Detroit 9 107 .377

1933 Jimmie Foxx Philadelphia 48 163 .356

1934 Lou Gehrig New York 49 165 .363

1942 Ted Williams Boston 36 137 .356

1947 Ted Williams Boston 32 114 .343

1956 Mickey Mantle New York 52 130 .353

1966 Frank Robinson Baltimore 49 122 .316

1967 Carl Yastrzemski Boston 44 121 .326

National League winners

Year Pitcher Team ERA Wins Ks

1877 Tommy Bond Boston 2.11 40 170

1884 Charles Radbourn Providence 1.38 60 441

1888 Tim Keefe N.Y. Giants 1.74 35 333

1889 John Clarkson Boston 2.73 49 284

1894 Amos Rusie N.Y. Giants 2.78 36 195

1905 Christy Mathewson N.Y. Giants 1.27 31 206

1908 Christy Mathewson N.Y. Giants 1.43 37 259

1915 Grover Alexander Philadelphia 1.22 31 241

1916 Grover Alexander Philadelphia 1.55 33 167

1917 Grover Alexander Philadelphia 1.86 30 201

1918 Hippo Vaughn Chicago 1.74 22 148

1920 Grover Alexander Chicago 1.91 27 173

1924 Dazzy Vance Brooklyn 2.16 28 262

1939 Bucky Walters Cincinnati 2.29 27 137

1963 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles 1.88 25 306

1965 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles 2.04 26 382

1966 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles 1.73 27 317

1972 Steve Carlton Philadelphia 1.97 27 310

1985 Dwight Gooden N.Y. Mets 1.53 24 268

2002 Randy Johnson Arizona 2.32 24 334

American League winners

Year Pitcher Team ERA Wins Ks

1901 Cy Young Boston 1.62 33 158

1905 Rube Waddell Philadelphia 1.48 26 287

1913 Walter Johnson Washington 1.09 36 243

1918 Walter Johnson Washington 1.27 23 162

1924 Walter Johnson Washington 2.72 23 158

1930 Lefty Grove Philadelphia 2.54 28 209

1931 Lefty Grove Philadelphia 2.06 31 175

1934 Lefty Gómez New York 2.33 26 158

1937 Lefty Gómez New York 2.33 21 194

1945 Hal Newhouser Detroit 1.81 25 212

1997 Roger Clemens Toronto 2.05 21 292

1998 Roger Clemens Toronto 2.65 20 271

1999 Pedro Martínez Boston 2.07 23 313

2006 Johan Santana Minnesota 2.77 19 245