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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.

Batting Triple Crown winners

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