Every year during the Major League baseball season there begin to be talks of a triple crown. Sports fans may be lost when announcers and analysts start to talk about a triple crown and don’t understand what it is. The Triple Crown is given to batters and pitchers that have dominated for an entire season ...
Saturday, June 9th will mark the 144th running of the Belmont Stakes. One of horse racing’s premier events, 2012 has special meaning as I’ll Have Another attempts to make racing history be capturing the U.S. Triple Crown. A rarity, it would be a stunning achievement if he were victorious Saturday. What is the Belmont Stakes? ...
The Triple Crown Award for hitting is given to a batter when he leads his league in the three major categories of home runs, runs batted in and batting average. There is also one awarded to a pitcher when he leads his league in wins, earned run average and strikeouts. However, since history has seen ...
With the Kentucky Derby on the horizon, this is a good time to review horse racing’s Triple Crown winners. Since 1919, only 11 horses have won the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and Belmont in the same year. The last horse to do so was Affirmed, who won the Triple Crown in 1978. Jockeyed by Steve ...
When I see a baseball record that hasn’t been broken in more than 30 years, I know it’s something special. The batting Triple Crown in MLB means finishing the season first in three categories: batting average, home runs, and RBIs. The last player to do it was Carl Yastrzemski in 1967 with the Boston Red ...