Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball milestones for doubles — including career doubles leaders, single season doubles plateaus and game related doubles records. Research by Baseball Almanac.
"If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete, I'd wear a dress." - Mickey Mantle (Commenting on National League Career Doubles Leader Pete Rose) in The Mick (Mickey Mantle, Jove Publishing, 04/01/1986, Page 93)
Doubles RecordsCareer Doubles Records |
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Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Most Doubles in a Career (Top 1,000) |
AL | Tris Speaker | Boston | 241 | 792 |
Cleveland | 486 | ||||
Washington | 43 | ||||
Philadelphia | 22 | ||||
NL | Pete Rose | Cincinnati | 601 | 746 | |
Philadelphia | 139 | ||||
Montreal | 6 | ||||
Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Doubles RecordsSingle Season Doubles Records |
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Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Fewest Doubles League Leader | Full Season (Year-by-Year) |
AL | Sal Bando | Oakland | 32 | 1973 |
Pedro Garcia | Milwaukee | 1973 | |||
NL | Hank Aaron | Milwaukee | 34 | 1956 | |
Most Doubles in a Season (Top 500) |
AL | Earl Webb | Boston | 67 | 1931 |
NL | Joe Medwick | St. Louis | 64 | 1936 | |
Most Doubles in a Season By A Lefthander |
AL | Earl Webb | Boston | 67 | 1931 |
NL | Paul Waner | Pittsburgh | 62 | 1932 | |
Most Doubles in a Season By A Righthander |
AL | George Burns | Cleveland | 64 | 1926 |
NL | Joe Medwick | St. Louis | 64 | 1936 | |
Most Doubles in a Season By A Rookie |
AL | Fred Lynn | Boston | 47 | 1975 |
NL | Johnny Frederick | Brooklyn | 52 | 1929 | |
Most Doubles in a Season By A Switch-Hitter |
AL | Brian Roberts | Baltimore | 56 | 2009 |
Jose Ramirez | Cleveland | 2017 | |||
NL | Lance Berkman | Houston | 55 | 2001 | |
Most Seasons Leading The League (Year-by-Year) |
AL | Tris Speaker | Boston | 8 | 1912 |
Boston | 1914 | ||||
Cleveland | 1916 | ||||
Cleveland | 1918 | ||||
Cleveland | 1920 | ||||
Cleveland | 1921 | ||||
Cleveland | 1922 | ||||
Cleveland | 1923 | ||||
NL | Stan Musial | St. Louis | 8 | 1943 | |
St. Louis | 1944 | ||||
St. Louis | 1945 | ||||
St. Louis | 1948 | ||||
St. Louis | 1949 | ||||
St. Louis | 1952 | ||||
St. Louis | 1953 | ||||
St. Louis | 1954 | ||||
Most Seasons With 30 or More Doubles |
AL | Tris Speaker | Boston | 16 | 1911 |
Boston | 1912 | ||||
Boston | 1913 | ||||
Boston | 1914 | ||||
Cleveland | 1916 | ||||
Cleveland | 1917 | ||||
Cleveland | 1918 | ||||
Cleveland | 1919 | ||||
Cleveland | 1920 | ||||
Cleveland | 1921 | ||||
Cleveland | 1922 | ||||
Cleveland | 1923 | ||||
Cleveland | 1924 | ||||
Cleveland | 1925 | ||||
Cleveland | 1926 | ||||
Washington | 1927 | ||||
NL | Stan Musial | St. Louis | 16 | 1942 | |
St. Louis | 1943 | ||||
St. Louis | 1944 | ||||
St. Louis | 1946 | ||||
St. Louis | 1947 | ||||
St. Louis | 1948 | ||||
St. Louis | 1949 | ||||
St. Louis | 1950 | ||||
St. Louis | 1951 | ||||
St. Louis | 1952 | ||||
St. Louis | 1953 | ||||
St. Louis | 1954 | ||||
St. Louis | 1955 | ||||
St. Louis | 1956 | ||||
St. Louis | 1957 | ||||
St. Louis | 1958 | ||||
Most Seasons With 40 or More Doubles |
AL | Tris Speaker | Boston | 10 | 1912 |
Boston | 1914 | ||||
Cleveland | 1916 | ||||
Cleveland | 1917 | ||||
Cleveland | 1920 | ||||
Cleveland | 1921 | ||||
Cleveland | 1922 | ||||
Cleveland | 1923 | ||||
Cleveland | 1926 | ||||
Cleveland | 1927 | ||||
NL | Stan Musial | St. Louis | 9 | 1943 | |
St. Louis | 1944 | ||||
St. Louis | 1946 | ||||
St. Louis | 1948 | ||||
St. Louis | 1949 | ||||
St. Louis | 1950 | ||||
St. Louis | 1952 | ||||
St. Louis | 1953 | ||||
St. Louis | 1954 | ||||
Most Seasons With 50 or More Doubles |
AL | Tris Speaker | Boston | 5 | 1912 |
Cleveland | 1920 | ||||
Cleveland | 1921 | ||||
Cleveland | 1923 | ||||
Cleveland | 1926 | ||||
NL | Stan Musial | St. Louis | 3 | 1944 | |
St. Louis | 1946 | ||||
St. Louis | 1953 | ||||
Paul Waner | Pittsburgh | 1928 | |||
Pittsburgh | 1932 | ||||
Pittsburgh | 1936 | ||||
Most Consecutive Seasons Leading The League (YbY) |
AL | Tris Speaker | Cleveland | 4 | 1920-1923 |
NL | Honus Wagner | Pittsburgh | 4 | 1906-1909 | |
Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Doubles RecordsGame Specific Doubles Records |
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Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Most Doubles In A Doubleheader |
AL | Hank Majeski | Philadelphia | 6 | 08-27-1948 |
08-27-1948 | |||||
NL | Chick Hafey | Cincinnati | 5 | 07-23-1933 | |
07-23-1933 | |||||
Mike Ivie | San Diego | 05-30-1977 | |||
05-30-1977 | |||||
Joe Medwick | St. Louis | 05-30-1935 | |||
05-30-1935 | |||||
Red Schoendienst | St. Louis | 06-06-1948 | |||
06-06-1948 | |||||
Most Doubles In A 9-Inning Game |
AA | Henry Larkin | Philadelphia | 4 | 07-29-1885 |
Jocko Milligan | Philadelphia | 05-02-1886 | |||
AL | Pop Dillon | Detroit | 4 | 04-25-1901 | |
Billy Werber | Boston | 07-17-1935 | |||
Frankie Hayes | Philadelphia | 07-25-1936 | |||
Mike Kreevich | Chicago | 09-04-1937 | |||
Marv Owen | Chicago | 04-23-1939 | |||
Johnny Lindell | New York | 08-17-1944 | |||
Lou Boudreau | Cleveland | 07-14-1946 | |||
Al Zarilla | Boston | 06-08-1950 | |||
Vic Wertz | Cleveland | 09-26-1956 | |||
Charlie Lau | Baltimore | 07-13-1962 | |||
Bill Bruton | Detroit | 05-19-1963 | |||
Orlando Cepeda | Boston | 08-08-1973 | |||
Jim Mason | New York | 07-08-1974 | |||
Dave Duncan | Baltimore | 06-30-1975 | |||
Rick Miller | Boston | 05-11-1981 | |||
Damaso Garcia | Toronto | 06-27-1986 | |||
Kirby Puckett | Minnesota | 05-13-1989 | |||
Sandy Alomar, Jr. | Cleveland | 06-06-1997 | |||
Albert Belle | Baltimore | 08-29-1999 | |||
Albert Belle | Baltimore | 09-23-1999 | |||
Johnny Damon | Kansas City | 07-18-2000 | |||
Shannon Stewart | Toronto | 07-18-2000 | |||
Tomas Perez | Tampa Bay | 07-29-2006 | |||
Alex Rios | Toronto | 08-17-2008 | |||
Victor Martinez | Boston | 06-01-2010 | |||
Brock Holt | Boston | 06-01-2014 | |||
Jarren Duran | Boston | 07-02-2023 | |||
NL | John O'Rourke | Boston | 4 | 09-15-1880 | |
Abner Dalrymple | Chicago | 07-03-1883 | |||
Cap Anson | Chicago | 07-03-1883 | |||
Tommy Tucker | Boston | 07-22-1893 | |||
Frank Bonner | Baltimore | 08-04-1894 | |||
Joe Kelley | Baltimore | 09-30-1894 | |||
Ed Delahanty | Philadelphia | 05-13-1899 | |||
Gavvy Cravath | Philadelphia | 08-08-1915 | |||
Denny Sothern | Philadelphia | 06-06-1930 | |||
Paul Waner | Pittsburgh | 05-20-1932 | |||
Dick Bartell | Philadelphia | 04-25-1933 | |||
Ernie Lombardi | Cincinnati | 05-08-1935 | |||
Joe Medwick | St. Louis | 08-04-1937 | |||
Willie Jones | Philadelphia | 04-20-1949 | |||
Jim Greengrass | Cincinnati | 04-13-1954 | |||
Billy Williams | Chicago | 04-09-1969 | |||
Billy Hatcher | Cincinnati | 08-21-1990 | |||
Jeff Bagwell | Houston | 06-14-1996 | |||
Marcus Giles | Atlanta | 07-27-2003 | |||
Adam LaRoche | Atlanta | 05-15-2004 | |||
Matt Murton | Chicago | 08-03-2006 | |||
Jeff Baker | Colorado | 05-30-2008 | |||
David Peralta | Arizona | 04-22-2017 | |||
Matt Carpenter | St. Louis | 08-26-2018 | |||
Adam Frazier | Pittsburgh | 07-01-2019 | |||
Kevin Newman | Pittsburgh | 08-14-2021 | |||
Kyle Farmer | Cincinnati | 04-27-2022 | |||
Most Doubles On Opening Day |
AL | Pop Dillon | Detroit | 4 | 04-25-1901 |
NL | Jim Greengrass | Cincinnati | 4 | 04-13-1954 | |
Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Doubles Records | Research by Baseball Almanac |
In 1996, Ivan Rodriguez of the Texas Rangers set the Major League record for doubles hit by a catcher during a season with 45 (he hit 47 total, but 2 were not while catching), since broken by Jonathan Lucroy of the Milwaukee Brewers, who broke the Hall of Famer's record by 1 double, hitting 46 in 2014 (he hit 53 doubles that year, but 7 were not while he was catching).
Did you know that in 2015, Ichiro Suzuki tied the Major League record for fewest doubles hit in a season (minimum of one-hundred fifty games played) with only five two-baggers, set previously by Dal Maxvill (1970) and Bobby Lowe (1899)? All three of these players were in the National League when they set the record. Their American League counterpart (Fewest Doubles Hit / 150 Game Minimum) is Billy Purtell of the Chicago White Sox, who hit six doubles in 1910 (151 games played).
Did you know that only five players in baseball history have hit 50 or more doubles three times: Tris Speaker (5 times), Albert Pujols, Stan Musial, Paul Waner and Brian Roberts?
Did you know that Cap Anson, Rickey Henderson, Eddie Murray, Tony Perez, and Dave Winfield are the only players in baseball history to collect 500+ career doubles, yet never once hit more than forty of them during any single season?
Did you know that Bo Bichette was the first player in baseball history to hit at least one double in nine consecutive games, and accomplished this feat in 2019? What makes this even more amazing, it was his rookie season, and a year where he only played in forty-six games!
Hank Borowy (Chicago [NL] May 5, 1946 - 7th Inning), Fred Goldsmith (Chicago [NL] September 6, 1883 - 7th Inning), Ted Lyons (Chicago [AL] July 28, 1935 - 2nd Inning), and Joe Wood (Boston [AL] July 4, 1913 - 4th Inning) are the only pitchers to hit two doubles during the same inning.