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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