When was the last batting triple crown winner

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Christy Mathewson 2. Grover Alexander 1. Grover Alexander 2. Hippo Vaughn 1. Grover Alexander 3. Dazzy Vance 1. Bucky Walters 1. Sandy Koufax 1. Ted Williams was the only player in the entire history of major league baseball to lead his league in batting average and home runs 3 times two Triple Crowns and one Double Crown , and he narrowly missed two other times in when he missed a third Triple Crown because he lost the batting title to George Kell.

Rogers Hornsby led his league in batting average and home runs twice by virtue of his two Triple Crowns , and 15 other players did it once. It is interesting to look at the winners of the Triple Crown in relation to the positions they played. No shortstop, third baseman, or catcher has ever won a Triple Crown. It is also interesting to look at the teams that the winners of the Triple Crown played for. The St. The probability of someone winning the Triple Crown in the near future is not great.

Someone will win the Triple Crown again sometime. An exceptional player will have an exceptional season, or less emphasis may come to be placed on strength and more on a balance of strength and skill.

The talented player who combines strength, skill, and timeliness stands a much better chance for genuine baseball immortality than the one-dimensional power hitter who concentrates solely on hitting home runs. The Triple Crown performances of the past were truly remarkable.

Be on the lookout for the player who has the potential for leading his league in both batting average and home runs. A player with the ability to combine hitting for accuracy with hitting for power will inevitably have a lot of runs batted in. Maybe the dream of a Triple Crown winner is not an impossible one after all. Only players ranking in the top five in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in or players ranking first in two of those events would qualify.

For each of the three events, the league leader would get five points, the runners-up would get four points, and so on through the top five.

The player with the most total points would win the SST Award. If this award had been in effect the past five years, Albert Pujols would have won the award three times and Matt Holliday and Ryan Howard once each and , respectively in the National League. Alex Rodriguez would have won the award twice and David Ortiz and Mark Teixeira once each and , respectively in the American League.

No American League player would have qualified in We live in an age of specialization. In the baseball world, batters try to concentrate on getting hits or hitting home runs. Players who do both are rare, and those who do both with runners on base are even rarer.