Triples : 1946 American League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)
 

1946 Triples Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Hank Edwards 16 Cleveland Indians 1
Buddy Lewis 13 Washington Senators 2
George Kell 10 Philadelphia Athletics 3
Detroit Tigers  
Charlie Keller 10 New York Yankees  
Stan Spence 10 Washington Senators  
Bobby Doerr 9 Boston Red Sox 6
Al Zarilla 9 St. Louis Browns  
Joe DiMaggio 8 New York Yankees 8
Jerry Priddy 8 Washington Senators  
Mickey Vernon 8 Washington Senators  
Ted Williams 8 Boston Red Sox  
Dom DiMaggio 7 Boston Red Sox 12
Jeff Heath 7 Washington Senators  
St. Louis Browns  
Snuffy Stirnweiss 7 New York Yankees  
Lou Boudreau 6 Cleveland Indians 15
Joe Grace 6 St. Louis Browns  
Washington Senators  
George McQuinn 6 Philadelphia Athletics  
Elmer Valo 6 Philadelphia Athletics  
Rudy York 6 Boston Red Sox  
Luke Appling 5 Chicago White Sox 20
Johnny Berardino 5 St. Louis Browns  
Sam Chapman 5 Philadelphia Athletics  
Russ Derry 5 Philadelphia Athletics  
Les Fleming 5 Cleveland Indians  
Hank Greenberg 5 Detroit Tigers  



The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

Jose Cruz of the Houston Astros had his number twenty-five retired on October 3, 1992, and became the first Major League player with that particular retired number.

Jim Thome wore number twenty-five since he first came up with the Cleveland Indians making him the franchise record holder for that particular number (Mike Garcia is second).