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Archives: Triple Crown Winners and the Hall of Fame

Archives: Triple Crown Winners and the Hall of Fame

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Jul 07, 2025
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Just a reminder that I’m on vacation this week, so I’ll be re-running some editions from the archives.

Way back in February of 2023, I wrote about all the Triple Crown winners, both hitters and pitchers, who didn’t make the Hall of Fame. Since then we’ve added a couple of pitchers to the list, Chris Sale ad Tarik Skubal just last year. On top of that, about a year ago I learned about Lester Lockett’s 1948 Triple Crown, which I’d missed in this original piece since I was referring the references that omitted him for some reason. Since there were only a couple dozen of you following along at the time, I’ve updated that piece. Enjoy.

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