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[jayshum]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Jim Rice?

Yes, Jim Rice in 1978. He's the one that I would not think speed would be a word to describe him, but he had 15 triples that year.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Yes, Jim Rice in 1978. He's the one that I would not think speed would be a word to describe him, but he had 15 triples that year.

Yeah, thought so.


I've gone down the Jim Rice rabbit hole before. He came one triple away from doing it two seasons in a row. He had 30 triples in a two year span, and 38 in a 3 year span.

Don't know how common it is, but he had far more career triples, then he had stolen bases.

Jim Rice has more career triples then Mickey Mantle.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Yeah, thought so.


I've gone down the Jim Rice rabbit hole before. He came one triple away from doing it two seasons in a row. He had 30 triples in a two year span, and 38 in a 3 year span.

Don't know how common it is, but he had far more career triples, then he had stolen bases.

Jim Rice has more career triples then Mickey Mantle.

Which leads me down another rabbit hole.

Stan Musial led the league in triples 5 times. 177 triples against only 78 stolen bases (and a rotten stolen base percentage of barely over 50% at that).

As a matter of fact, Stan has more triples then anybody whose career was entirely in the post-deadball era, except for Paul Waner (who also didn't steal many bases).


.....and the more I look, the more I see that hitting prowess may actually have more to do with triples production, then simply blazing speed.

[Yoda]

Having lived in Japan for many years and becoming a Tokyo Giants fan, I saw Oh and Nagashima play in their prime and always thought they would do as well in MLB as in Japan. Ichiro proved that point, and now we have the incredibly talented Ohtani to marvel at.

Japan has always been baseball mad and fans are terrifically loyal to their teams. The integration of their best players into our game is, I believe, a big positive. Ohtani has become divine over there, probably ranking just below the Emperor.

[jethrod3]

I had Mays and Rice from the live ball era. And of these two I'd have least suspected Rice!

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

interesting thing I found while trying to figure out the last one. Name a player with four HR crowns who had more career triples than Home Runs.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

interesting thing I found while trying to figure out the last one. Name a player with four HR crowns who had more career triples than Home Runs.

Hmmm, it's exactly who I thought it was, so I'll leave it to somebody else to figure out.