The All-time Leading Triples Hitters
The Volume 15, Number 1 issue of the American Association Almanac was published last week and after production was mailed to subscribers. The topic: The all-time leading triples hitters in the American Association from 1902 to 1962. The cover: Leading off with an introduction, the report's methodology section describes the process by which more than 1,000 player records were evaluated in order to determine two things: 1. The league's all-time Top 20 triples leaderboard, and 2. The Team Top 20 triples leaderboard for each club Data collection began mid-fall of 2018 and proceeded through mid-February 2019. The narrative is statistically dense with smattering of anecdotal information to describe the players who made it onto the all-time triples leaderboards. In addition to production totals, special emphasis is given to the statistical category of at-bats per triple, or ABT. This measurement device, created especially for the analysis presented here, is intende