Triple Crown Winners Trivia Quiz

Answer: Nap Lajoie

Lajoie batted .426, smacked 14 home runs, and drove home 125 runs to take home the award while playing for the Philadelphia Athletics.

Answer: Jimmie Foxx and Chuck Klein

Foxx batted .356 with 48 dingers and 163 RBIs to pace the AL while playing for the Philadelphia Athletics. Klein of the Philadelphia Phillies led all National Leaguers with a .368 batting average, 28 home runs, and 120 runs batted in.

Answer: Sandy Koufax

Koufax pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers during those years and didn't win the award in 1964. His win totals for 1963, 1965, and 1966 were 25, 26, and 27 respectively, while his ERA was under 2.00 twice in that span. He fanned over 300 batters in each of those three seasons.

Answer: Cy Young

Cy Young has the most prestigous pitcher's award named after him. He led all American League hurlers in wins with 33, ERA with a 1.62 mark, and strikeouts with 158 in 1901. He won the award while playing for the Boston Red Sox.

Answer: Ty Cobb

Cobb's .366 career batting average was one of the highest of all-time. Along with his league leading nine home runs, Cobb also paced the AL with a .377 batting average and 107 RBIs in 1909. He played for the Detroit Tigers during his 1909 campaign.

Answer: New York Yankees

The award went to Joe Gordon in 1942 despite his stats being a .322 batting average, 18 home runs, and 103 RBIs, compared with Ted Williams' .356 batting average, 36 home runs, and 137 RBIs. In 1947, Joe DiMaggio won the MVP in 1947 with a .315 batting average, 20 home runs, and 97 RBI, but nothing close to the monsterous stats that Williams put up that year.

In 1947, Williams had a .343 batting average, 32 home runs, and 114 runs batted in. Williams certainly got the short end of the stick in those two years, winning the Triple Crown award but losing the MVP award to players with inferior statistics on his rival team.

Answer: True

The fewest wins for a pitcher to win this award in the century was 20, done by Roger Clemens when he went 20-6 with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1998. The most wins by a pitcher in a season that they won the Triple Crown award in the century, was 37 by Christy Mathewson of the Giants in 1908.

Answer: True

Hornsby won the award in 1922 with a .401 batting average, 42 home runs, and 152 RBIs. He won the award again in 1925 with a .403 batting average, 39 home runs, and 143 RBIs. Both Triple Crown seasons were while he was playing for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Answer: False

He never topped his home run or RBI totals from that season, but his career high in batting average was .329, which he compiled in 1970 with the Boston Red Sox.

Answer: 1925

In 1901, Cy Young took home the pitching honors and Nap Lajoie took home the hitting honors. In 1934, the pitching award went to Lefty Gomez and Lou Gehrig, who paced the American League in all three offensive categories. In 1966, Frank Robinson led all hitters in batting average, home runs, and RBIs, while Sandy Koufax gathered his third and final Triple Crown award for pitchers.

In 1925, Rogers Hornsby won the offensive Triple Crown but no pitcher won the pitching Triple Crown, though there was a pitching Triple Crown winner in both the American and National Leagues in the previous year.