Sam Crawford: King of Triples

Before home runs ruled baseball… before stadiums were built for power… there was Sam Crawford

— the most dangerous extra-base hitter the game has ever seen.

Crawford owns a record that will never be broken: three hundred nine triples —

more than any player in Major League Baseball history. He finished with over three thousand

hits, a career average of three oh nine, and power that punished pitchers in every

corner of the park. In the Deadball Era, triples were chaos —

speed, angles, and fear. And no one mastered that chaos like

Crawford. Paired with Ty Cobb in Detroit, Crawford formed one of the most