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    Triple Crown Awards

    Who was the first switch-hitter to win a Triple Crown?Triple Crowns with a Bat (Nightmare)

      Mickey Mantle. Mantle, a switch-hitter won the award in 1956 with the Yankees. The 'Commerce Comet' hit 52 home runs, batted .353 along with 130 RBIs. Mickey also won the MVP in the season. He topped Ted Williams with a .345 average, Vic Wertz with 32 home runs, and Tiger Al Kaline by only two RBIs.

    Who was the first player in history to win two Triple Crown awards?Triple Crowns with a Bat (Nightmare)

      Rogers Hornsby. The great second baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals won them with almost identical numbers. His first in 1922 came 42 home runs, 152 RBIs, and batted .401 in the season. Hornsby's second came in 1925 by hitting 39 out of the park, 143 RBIs, and batting .403 in the season. 1921 would have given him another Triple Crown, had he not finished runner-up in home runs to George Kelly of the New York Giants.

    Who was the first New York Yankee to win the Triple Crown award?Triple Crowns with a Bat (Nightmare)

      Lou Gehrig. Munson, who won the Rookie of the Year in 1970, won the MVP in 1976 but was never close to the Triple Crown. The Babe came close many times but never won the Triple Crown. It was Gehrig who won it in Ruth's last season with the Yankees in 1934. Lou hit 49 home runs, had 165 RBIs, and hit a .363 average. Gehrig also led the league in many other categories, but unfoundedly finished fifth in the MVP voting behind the Tigers' Mickey Cochrane, Charlie Gehringer, Schoolboy Rowe, and Yankee teammate Lefty Gomez. Something did not compute in 1934.

    Who was the first Boston Red Sox player to win the Triple Crown award?Triple Crowns with a Bat (Nightmare)

      Ted Williams. Although all Triple Crown winners, Williams was not only the first Red Sox player to win it, but he won two. Ironically, he won it in 1942 just before being drafted into WWII. Then he returned to the Major Leagues in 1946 and won the AL MVP. He was also the runner-up in all three Triple Crown categories in 1946. In 1947, he made up for it and won the Triple Crown a second time. In 1949, he missed his third Triple Crown by a hair by tying in RBIs, hit more home runs than anyone in the league, but lost the batting title to George Kell of the Tigers by less than .001.

    Which baseball great won a Rookie of the Year award and a MVP award in the National League, then in his first season in the American League, won the Triple Crown award?Triple Crowns with a Bat (Nightmare)

      Frank Robinson. Robinson's rookie award came in 1956 with the Cincinnati Reds. Frank's MVP came in 1961 in his only NL World Series season. After being traded to the Orioles after the 1965 season, Robinson defied nature by winning the AL Triple Crown in 1966. His .316 average, 49 home runs, and 122 RBIs made the Reds regret the trade. Ironically, Frank never led the league in any of the Triple Crown categories again. He retired in 1976 as a Cleveland Indian, was inducted into the hall in 1982, and was also a manager.

    What slugger won the Triple Crown award in 1909 despite hitting only nine home runs that season?Triple Crown Winners (royals794)

      Ty Cobb. Cobb's .366 career batting average was one of the highest of all-time. Along with his league leading nine home runs, Cobb also paced the AL with a .377 batting average and 107 RBIs in 1909. He played for the Detroit Tigers during his 1909 campaign.

    What pitcher won the Triple Crown three times in a four-year span between the years 1963 and 1966?Triple Crown Winners (royals794)

      Sandy Koufax. Koufax pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers during those years and didn't win the award in 1964. His win totals for 1963, 1965, and 1966 were 25, 26, and 27 respectively, while his ERA was under 2.00 twice in that span. He fanned over 300 batters in each of those three seasons.

    What pitcher won the Triple Crown award in 1901?Triple Crown Winners (royals794)

      Cy Young. Cy Young has the most prestigous pitcher's award named after him. He led all American League hurlers in wins with 33, ERA with a 1.62 mark, and strikeouts with 158 in 1901. He won the award while playing for the Boston Red Sox.

    What hitter won the first batting Triple Crown award in the 20th century, when he won the title in 1901?Triple Crown Winners (royals794)

      Nap Lajoie. Lajoie batted .426, smacked 14 home runs, and drove home 125 runs to take home the award while playing for the Philadelphia Athletics.

    The 'Georgia Peach', Ty Cobb, won a Triple Crown with the Detroit Tigers in 1909 during his fifth season of baseball. He hit .377 with 107 RBIs, and how many home runs?Triple Crowns with a Bat (Nightmare)

      9. In 1909, home runs were a commodity and with Cobb's nine, this made him the all-around hitter. The closest home run hitter in the season was Tris Speaker of Boston who hit seven. In 1910, Cobb was the runner-up in all three Triple Crown categories. Ty would have won the award again in 1911, but fell short to Frank Baker of the Athletics in home runs. Cobb hit an amazing .420 in 1911 with 127 RBIs.

    Talk about getting shafted,Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox won the Triple Crown award in the American League in both 1942 and 1947, but didn't win the MVP award in either year! Instead, the MVP award went to two different players on what team in those years?Triple Crown Winners (royals794)

      New York Yankees. The award went to Joe Gordon in 1942 despite his stats being a .322 batting average, 18 home runs, and 103 RBIs, compared with Ted Williams' .356 batting average, 36 home runs, and 137 RBIs. In 1947, Joe DiMaggio won the MVP in 1947 with a .315 batting average, 20 home runs, and 97 RBI, but nothing close to the monsterous stats that Williams put up that year. In 1947, Williams had a .343 batting average, 32 home runs, and 114 runs batted in. Williams certainly got the short end of the stick in those two years, winning the Triple Crown award but losing the MVP award to players with inferior statistics on his rival team.

    In 1933, there was a Triple Crown winner in both the American and National Leagues. Who were the winners in the American and National Leagues in that year, respectively?Triple Crown Winners (royals794)

      Jimmie Foxx and Chuck Klein. Foxx batted .356 with 48 dingers and 163 RBIs to pace the AL while playing for the Philadelphia Athletics. Klein of the Philadelphia Phillies led all National Leaguers with a .368 batting average, 28 home runs, and 120 runs batted in.

    An American Leaguer was the last to win the Triple Crown award in the 20th century in 1967. Who was it?Triple Crowns with a Bat (Nightmare)

      Carl Yastrzemski. Robinson won his with the Orioles in 1966, then the 'Yaz' finished off the century by winning it in 1967 with the Red Sox, which also earned him the MVP award in the season. He hit 44 home runs, had 121 RBIs, and batted .326. With what was a low league-leading batting average, Carl still pulled it off. In comparison to the National League in 1967, Roberto Clemente led the league in batting with .357, Hank Aaron with 39 home runs, and Orlando Cepeda had 111 RBIs.

    Amazingly, two batting Triple Crowns were hit in the same season in 1933. More amazing, they were both hit in the same city. Which city did these unique events occur in?Triple Crowns with a Bat (Nightmare)

      Philadelphia. Chuck Klein won his with the Phillies, but the team still finished seventh in the National League. Foxx won his with the Athletics of Philadelphia, and they finished third in the American League. A very unique statistic for Major League baseball in the same season.

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