Has a Triple Crown winner ever lost the MVP?

It marked the second time in five years that Williams had won the Triple Crown only to lose the MVP Award to a member of the pennant-winning Yankees. In 1942, it was Bombers' second baseman Joe Gordon who defeated Williams by 21 points in the MVP voting.
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Did Ted Williams win the MVP when he won Triple Crown?

406, won two batting titles, two RBI titles, two home run crowns and was the 1942 American League Triple Crown winner. But it wasn't until his fifth season – when he failed to lead the league in any of the Triple Crown categories – that Williams was named the AL Most Valuable Player.
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Why didn t Lou Gehrig win the 1934 MVP?

Lou Gehrig (Yankees), 1934 AL (5th)

Tigers catcher Mickey Cochrane took home the award as a player-manager for a pennant winner, so the narrative overcame a dominant season from Gehrig.
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How many Triple Crown winners have won MVP?

Since creation of the MVP Award, the seven players who won both a Triple Crown and an MVP were Rogers Hornsby in 1925, Jimmie Foxx in 1933, Joe Medwick in 1937, Mickey Mantle in 1956, Frank Robinson in 1966, Yastrzemski in 1967 and Cabrera in 2012. But their stories aren't the interesting ones.
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Did Lou Gehrig ever win the Triple Crown?

Gehrig was easily the best hitter in baseball in 1934, earning the major league Triple Crown (leading the majors in all three categories). He also finished with 170 runs created, well ahead of the next-best player – Charlie Gehringer of the Tigers with 146.
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Who is the greatest Triple Crown winner of all time?

That would be horse racing legend Secretariat, who earned the three-race title in 1973 and holds the fastest combined time for each of the three races.
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What is the rarest hit in baseball?

There have been 317 No-hitters in Major League history. The Perfect Game. There have been 23 perfect games in Major League history. The most rare play is the unassisted triple play, as there have been only 15 players that have completed an unassisted triple play.
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Has anyone won 4 MVPs?

Wilt Chamberlain (center) won the award four times in his career. Bob Pettit was the first player to win multiple MVP awards. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won the award a record-setting six times in his career. Larry Bird was the last player to win the award in three consecutive years.
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Has anyone ever won 3 MVPs in a row?

However, only three have successfully achieved the MVP three-peat: Bill Russell: 1960-63. Wilt Chamberlain: 1965-68. Larry Bird: 1983-86.
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Who is the only player to win MVP 3 times in a row?

NBA players who won three consecutive MVP awards are Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain and Larry Bird. Bill Russell won five MVP awards and three in a row from 1961 to 1963. Wilt Chamberlain won four MVP awards and three in a row from 1966 to 1968.
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Who is the oldest MVP in MLB history?

Barry Bonds* was MLB's oldest MVP and the oldest batting champion when he won the National League MVP award in 2004. Bonds was 40 years old (plus 71 days) at the end of the season. But Bonds' record was tainted by his use of PEDs.
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How long did Lou Gehrig live after his diagnosis?

Gehrig would live less than two years after that afternoon, passing away at his home in the Bronx on June 2, 1941, by coincidence 16 years to the day from when he had replaced Wally Pipp at first base for the Yankees, beginning his streak of consecutive games played.
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Why didn t Mark McGwire win MVP?

Check the statistics and read the summary and decide who you would have voted for. McGwire won the home run race while Sosa led the NL in runs and RBI, edging out McGwire in both categories. But Big Mac had an on-base percentage 93 points higher and a slugging percentage 105 points higher.
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Why did Joe DiMaggio win MVP in 1947?

DiMaggio, who led the Yankees to the 1947 World Series title, hit . 315 with 20 homers and 97 RBI compared the Williams' . 343, 32 and 114 in the same categories. DiMaggio received 202 points in the voting compared to 201 for Williams, who was omitted from one ballot entirely.
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Which Triple Crown winner was the most successful and why?

Seattle Slew (1977)

Seattle Slew has been the only horse to win the Triple Crown while being undefeated. He started just three times as a two-year-old, winning all three times. As a three-year-old he would then run three more times before facing his biggest test at the Kentucky Derby.
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Why did Joe DiMaggio win the MVP in 1941?

The 1941 AL MVP Award went to Joe DiMaggio, who hit 30 homers and paced the Majors with 125 RBIs and 348 total bases. He also led the Yankees to a 101-53 campaign that culminated with their ninth World Series title. And, oh yeah, the Yankee Clipper had a Major League-record 56-game hitting streak along the way.
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Who is the oldest NBA MVP ever?

Karl Malone is the oldest MVP in a season. He was 35 years old in 1998-99.
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Who is the youngest NBA MVP?

#1 Derrick Rose - 22 years

Finally, the youngest ever to win it, Derrick Rose broke a 42-year-old record, winning the NBA MVP in 2011.
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Who has 9 mvps?

Ice hockey player, Wayne Gretzky, has been named MVP more times than any player in the history of the other three North American major professional leagues (MLB, NBA, and NFL). He won the award a record nine times during his career, eight consecutively.
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Who is the shortest player to win the NBA Finals MVP?

At 6 feet and 165 pounds, Iverson is the shortest and lightest player to win the MVP award. He had 93 first-place votes out of a possible 124, to 18 for Duncan. Iverson is the first Sixer to win the award since Moses Malone in 1982-83, the last year Philadelphia won a championship.
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Has there ever been a 27 pitch game?

In Major League Baseball there has never been a 27 strike game (in 9 innings, performed by one pitcher). It did happen in the Class-D Appalachian League on May 13, 1952.
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Why is the letter K used for a strikeout?

A “K” is used to refer to a strikeout in baseball because the letter “S” was already used to score a sacrifice. So Henry Chadwick, the inventor of the box score, began using the letter “K” in the 1860s because it is the last letter of “struck”, which was the common term for a strikeout at the time.
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What is the most unbreakable record in baseball?

Top 5 most unbreakable records in baseball: #1-Cal Ripken Jr.'s 2,632 consecutive games played.
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