Triples All Time Leaders by Baseball Almanac

Career Leaders for Triples

Speed is the key to making this chart and not one single member of the 500 Home Runs Club even breaks into the top fifty on this chart. Are players today "really" faster than they once were?

There are arguments supporting this, supporting better defense, supporting better pitching, but the truth is only one active player appears in the top one-hundred career leaders for triples.

"Believe me, he had a real spitter. He'd try to talk and bubbles would fly all over the place." - Sam Crawford (1st Overall Triples Leader)

Triples All Time Leaders 'Top 100'
Name	Triples	Rank
Sam Crawford	309	1
Ty Cobb	295	2
Honus Wagner	252	3
Jake Beckley	243	4
Roger Connor	233	5
Tris Speaker	222	6
Fred Clarke	220	7
Dan Brouthers	205	8
Joe Kelley	194	9
Paul Waner	191	10
Bid McPhee	188	11
Eddie Collins	187	12
Ed Delahanty	185	13
Sam Rice	184	14
Jesse Burkett	182	15
Edd Roush	182
Ed Konetchy	181	17
Buck Ewing	178	18
Rabbit Maranville	177	19
Stan Musial	177
Harry Stovey	174	21
Goose Goslin	173	22
Tommy Leach	172	23
Zack Wheat	172
Rogers Hornsby	169	25
Joe Jackson	168	26
Roberto Clemente	166	27
Sherry Magee	166
Jake Daubert	165	29
Elmer Flick	164	30
George Sisler	164
Pie Traynor	164
Bill Dahlen	163	33
George Davis	163
Lou Gehrig	163
Nap Lajoie	163
Mike Tiernan	162	37
George Van Haltren	161	38
Harry Hooper	160	39
Heinie Manush	160
Sam Thompson	160
Max Carey	159	42
Joe Judge	159
Ed McKean	158	44
Kiki Cuyler	157	45
Jimmy Ryan	157
Tommy Corcoran	155	47
Earle Combs	154	48
Jim Bottomley	151	49
Harry Heilmann	151
Kip Selbach	149	51
Al Simmons	149
Wally Pipp	148	53
Enos Slaughter	148
Bobby Veach	147	55
Willie Wilson	147
Charlie Gehringer	146	57
Harry Davis	145	58
Willie Keeler	145
Bobby Wallace	143	60
Lou Brock	141	61
Willie Mays	140	62
John Reilly	139	63
Tom Brown	138	64
Willie Davis	138
Frankie Frisch	138
Jimmy Williams	138
George Brett	137	68
Babe Ruth	136	69
Jimmy Sheckard	136
Elmer Smith	136
Lave Cross	135	72
Pete Rose	135
Shano Collins	133	74
Jim O'Rourke	132	75
George Wood	132
Brett Butler	131	77
Joe DiMaggio	131
Buck Freeman	131
Buddy Myer	130	80
Oyster Burns	129	81
Larry Gardner	129
Earl Averill	128	83
Arky Vaughan	128
Vada Pinson	127	85
Hardy Richardson	126	86
Robin Yount	126
Jimmie Foxx	125	88
John Anderson	124	89
Cap Anson	124
Hal Chase	124
Steve Finley	124
Wildfire Schulte	124
Larry Doyle	123	94
Duke Farrell	123
Dummy Hoy	121	96
Mickey Vernon	120	97
Hugh Duffy	119	98
Fred Pfeffer	119
Joe Cronin	118	100
Chick Stahl	118
Lloyd Waner	118
Name	Triples	Rank
Current Through 2007 Season

Sam Crawford is the only player in the history of our national pastime with more than three-hundred career triples — a "club" all too himself.

Did you know that the top fifteen players on the top one-hundred career triples chart are all members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame?

The closest active (played during the 2007 season) players, not on the top 100 list, are Kenny Lofton with one-hundred thirteen and Johnny Damon with eighty-six.

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