Way more Triples at Home for season leaders 1903-1926. Why?

Maybe just showing off for the home town fans.

Two queries in stathead.com resulted in the table below. Both queries looked for at least 15 Triples: one list for Triples at home, the other for Triples on the road. The number of seasons found for each:

Home 11

Road 2

More Triples than Doubles for minimum 20 Triples. Owen Wilson, King of Triples.  Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Owen Wilson is also the all time season record holder for Triples

1912 splits (twice as many 3B at home in fewer AB):

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Two players had ridiculous home/road 3B splits:

Walker: 19/1

Waner: 18/1

			H	R		%H	%R			H	H	H	H	H	H	H
Split	Player	Year	3B	3B	3B	3B	3B	Team	L	G	AB	H	1B	2B	3B	HR	Player
Home	Owen Wilson	1912	24	12	36	66.67%	33.33%	Pit	NL	75	279	83	47	10	24	2	Owen Wilson
Home	Curt Walker	1926	19	1	20	95.00%	5.00%	Cin	NL	76	283	98	62	16	19	1	Curt Walker
Home	Sam Crawford	1914	18	8	26	69.23%	30.77%	Det	AL	78	287	89	56	12	18	3	Sam Crawford
Home	Paul Waner	1928	18	1	19	94.74%	5.26%	Pit	NL	77	304	121	75	26	18	2	Paul Waner
Home	Buck Freeman	1903	16	4	20	80.00%	20.00%	Bos	AL	70	278	84	44	17	16	7	Buck Freeman
Home	Edd Roush	1924	16	5	21	76.19%	23.81%	Cin	NL	66	263	83	55	11	16	1	Edd Roush
Home	Sam Crawford	1913	15	8	23	65.22%	34.78%	Det	AL	76	296	91	58	13	15	5	Sam Crawford
Home	Sam Crawford	1915	15	4	19	78.95%	21.05%	Det	AL	77	303	111	83	11	15	2	Sam Crawford
Home	Tom Long	1915	15	10	25	60.00%	40.00%	StL	NL	76	278	83	56	11	15	1	Tom Long
Home	Max Carey	1923	15	4	19	78.95%	21.05%	Pit	NL	77	295	90	56	14	15	5	Max Carey
Home	Kiki Cuyler	1925	15	11	26	57.69%	42.31%	Pit	NL	77	304	114	76	16	15	7	Kiki Cuyler
			H	R		%H	%R			R	R	R	R	R	R	R
Split	Player	Year	3B	3B	3B	3B	3B	Team	L	G	AB	H	1B	2B	3B	HR	Player
Road	Ty Cobb	1908	5	15	20	25.00%	75.00%	Det	AL	76	306	97	63	15	15	4	Ty Cobb
Road	Dale Mitchell	1949	8	15	23	34.78%	65.22%	Cle	AL	74	322	107	85	6	15	1	Dale Mitchell

Long time Detroit Tiger teammates Sam Crawford (3 times) and Ty Cobb are on opposite lists. Looking at Cobb's 1908 season, here are American League leaders:

Triples

1.	Cobb • DET	20
2.	Crawford • DET	16
	Stahl • 2TM	16
4.	Gessler • BOS	14
5.	McIntyre • DET	13
	Rossman • DET	13
7.	Milan • WSH	12
8.	Cravath • BOS	11
9.	Schaefer • DET	10
10.	Thoney • BOS	9
	Hemphill • NYY	9
	Davis • PHA	9
	Ganley • WSH	9

Detroit had four of the top 6. The Tigers played their home games in Bennett Park. They wouldn't move into Navin Field (later called Tiger Stadium) until 1912. As shown in the table above, Cobb had 5 Triples at home and 15 on the road. Crawford, despite being on the home list three times (all in Navin Field), had 7 at home and 9 on the road. Crawford's league leading 7 Home Runs split: 2 home, 5 road. Cobb hit all four of his homers on the road.

1908 Home Runs:

Crawford: 2 of 7 IPHR (Inside the Park)

Cobb: 3 of 4 IPHR (Cobb had the triple crown in 1909. All 9 HR were IPHR.)

Career Home Run home/road splits:

Crawford: 40/57  (50 IPHR, 4  bounced)

Cobb: 35/82  (46 IPHR, 1 bounced)

100 Triple teams: 32 of 34 over .500. Pittsburgh 13 times!  Thursday, May 23, 2024

On this list:

1930 Yankees: first in R/G (Runs per Game) and the only team to score at least 1,000 Runs. First in TB.

1927 (highest HR%) and 1930 Yankees: only teams with at least 100 HR.

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1927 AL leaders:

Home Runs

1.	Ruth • NYY	60
2.	Gehrig • NYY	47
3.	Lazzeri • NYY	18
4.	Williams • SLB	17
5.	Simmons • PHA	15
6.	Heilmann • DET	14
7.	Goslin • WSH	13
8.	Cochrane • PHA	12
9.	Falk • CHW	9
	Fothergill • DET	9
	McManus • DET	9

Oh, that 1927. 60 homers by Babe Ruth: career 3B home/road splits: 70/66, including with Red Sox.

Triples

1.	Combs • NYY	23
2.	Manush • DET	18
	Gehrig • NYY	18
4.	Goslin • WSH	15
5.	Rice • WSH	14
6.	Kamm • CHW	13
7.	Metzler • CHW	11
	Gehringer • DET	11
	Koenig • NYY	11
	Simmons • PHA	11
	Myer • 2TM	11
	Judge • WSH	11

Earl Combs (career 3B splits 82/72) led AL in Triples:

1927: 23 (10/13)

1928: 21 (12/9)

1930: 22 (13/9)

Lou Gehrig  (career splits 83/81) led AL in Triples:

1926: 20 (12/8)

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1930 AL leaders:

Home Runs

1.	Ruth • NYY	49
2.	Gehrig • NYY	41
3.	Foxx • PHA	37
	Goslin • 2TM	37
5.	Simmons • PHA	36
6.	Morgan • CLE	26
7.	Reynolds • CHW	22
8.	Alexander • DET	20
9.	Averill • CLE	19

Triples

1.	Combs • NYY	23
2.	Manush • DET	18
	Gehrig • NYY	18
4.	Goslin • WSH	15
5.	Rice • WSH	14
6.	Kamm • CHW	13
7.	Metzler • CHW	11
	Gehringer • DET	11
	Koenig • NYY	11
	Simmons • PHA	11
	Myer • 2TM	11
	Judge • WSH	11

Three Yankees in the top 7. Plus 1930 Home Run champ Babe Ruth had 9 Triples.

113 teams had at least 50 Triples at home. Ten had more than 70 at home, all between 1903 and 1930; Pittsburgh 7 times.

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Team	Split	Year	G	3B	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB
CIN	Home	1926	852	84	2878	2528	372	758	107	8	24	215	125	.300	.359	.418	.777	1057
BOS	Home	1903	670	81	2633	2412	395	713	99	35	80	124	245	.296	.337	.447	.784	1079
PIT	Home	1924	814	79	2937	2659	393	814	118	20	106	182	176	.306	.354	.433	.787	1150
PIT	Home	1922	851	79	3077	2730	439	869	116	22	64	236	150	.318	.375	.443	.818	1209
PIT	Home	1923	812	78	2874	2625	381	822	114	16	83	186	168	.313	.361	.434	.795	1140
BOS	Home	1904	765	75	2956	2672	325	671	89	18	52	185	296	.251	.307	.361	.668	964
PIT	Home	1930	845	75	2957	2613	433	800	137	27	36	227	182	.306	.364	.447	.811	1168
PIT	Home	1912	817	74	2798	2498	342	710	88	14	105	210	227	.284	.343	.396	.738	988
PIT	Home	1928	845	73	3037	2652	479	896	127	16	37	233	169	.338	.396	.459	.855	1217
PIT	Home	1925	838	72	3016	2651	481	853	152	27	97	275	165	.322	.389	.464	.853	1230
PHA	Home	1910	786	71	2857	2516	339	693	91	9	109	214	296	.275	.338	.379	.717	953

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Generated 5/25/2024.

Only 20 teams had at least 50 Triples on the road. The most were 59 road Triples by the 1911 Chicago Cubs. Three were later than those 1930 Yankees (60/50):

Team	Split	Year ▲	G	3B	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB
NYY	Away	1930	932	50	3336	2908	591	926	177	83	49	31	330	316	.318	.390	.499	.890	1452
CLE	Away	1936	845	51	3022	2740	386	763	146	50	30	31	239	262	.279	.338	.424	.761	1161
BOS	Away	1940	856	50	3024	2723	404	759	137	72	19	26	258	319	.279	.343	.445	.788	1212
LAD	Away	1970	1010	51	3256	2911	439	853	131	52	62	34	267	455	.293	.351	.427	.778	1242

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Generated 5/25/2024.

Team Triples in 2023: Arizona 44 ... Seattle and St. Louis 12.