Top 25 Triples in 2001 in the American League

Triples : 2001 American League Top 25

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"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)

2001 Triples Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Triples Team Rank

Cristian Guzman 14 Minnesota Twins 1

Roberto Alomar 12 Cleveland Indians 2

Carlos Beltran 12 Kansas City Royals

Roger Cedeno 11 Detroit Tigers 4

Ray Durham 10 Chicago White Sox 5

Mark McLemore 9 Seattle Mariners 6

Ichiro Suzuki 8 Seattle Mariners 7

Omar Vizquel 8 Cleveland Indians

Damion Easley 7 Detroit Tigers 9

Juan Encarnacion 7 Detroit Tigers

Shane Halter 7 Detroit Tigers

Shannon Stewart 7 Toronto Blue Jays

Tony Batista 6 Toronto Blue Jays 13

Baltimore Orioles

Bobby Higginson 6 Detroit Tigers

Jose Macias 6 Detroit Tigers

Troy O'Leary 6 Boston Red Sox

Luis Rivas 6 Minnesota Twins

Randy Winn 6 Tampa Bay Devil Rays

Mike Cameron 5 Seattle Mariners 19

Frank Catalanotto 5 Texas Rangers

Alex Gonzalez 5 Toronto Blue Jays

Jerry Hairston, Jr. 5 Baltimore Orioles

Torii Hunter 5 Minnesota Twins

Raul Ibanez 5 Kansas City Royals

Rey Sanchez 5 Kansas City Royals

Name Triples Team Rank

Future Hall of Famer Sammy Sosa is best known for wearing number twenty-one; however, when the young slugger played for the Chicago White Sox (1989-1991) he only wore number twenty-five.

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.

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