Not in baseball, but in horse racing... Although, we haven't seen a triple crown winner in MLB since Carl "Yaz" Yastrzemski. In 1967 "Yaz" hit 44 home runs with 121 rbi, batting .326. It's very early in the season, but Lance Berkman of the Astros is on a triple crown pace, leading the league in homers and rbi, and is second to Chipper Jones in batting average. One more baseball note, "Yaz" won the batting title with a .301 average in 1968, which I believe is the lowest winning average of all-time...
There hasn't been a triple crown winner in thoroughbred racing since Affirmed in 1978. The year earlier Seattle Slew also won the triple crown. And in 1973, the greatest racing horse of all-time Secretariat dominated the triple crown. I will never forget watching Secretariat win the Belmont by 31 lengths besting a field of five horses. Rest assured, Big Brown will have more competitors and he won't win by 31 lengths, but a 10 length win is realistic, considering the thoroughbred's closing speed...
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