Geezer May triple leaderboard
Only twelve players since 1913 who were 38 or older have ever hit three triples in May. It is quite a list.
Player Split Year 3B PA Ty Cobb May 1925 8 147 Sam Rice May 1928 6 128 Jake Daubert May 1922 5 140 Sam Rice May 1930 4 130 Steve Finley May 2006 4 120 Omar Vizquel May 2006 4 118 Jake Daubert May 1923 3 114 Tris Speaker May 1926 3 127 Babe Ruth May 1934 3 109 Bob Johnson May 1945 3 101 Raul Ibanez May 2010 3 105 Chase Utley May 2017 3 79
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Generated 5/31/2017.
Ty Cobb hit eight triples in May of 1925 at the age of 38.
Strangely enough, four players have done it in the 21st century though the last time it was done in the 20th century was 1945.
Babe Ruth is on this list. How about that?
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Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 
Wonderful perspective.
Makes me appreciate Utley even more.
The guy is almost like too good to be true.
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Made me wonder about the dimensions of some of those old fields, since the list is dominated by players from the 1920s. So I looked up the dimensions of League/Dunn Field in Cleveland where Tris Speaker played. Left Field – 375 ft; Left-Center – 415 ft; Center Field – 420 ft; Deep Center – 460 ft; Right-Center – 317 ft; Right Field – 290 ft. The wall in right field was 40 feet tall. Totally unscientific, and just one of the stadiums, but I bet that a lot of the triples would have gone over fences in stadiums with modern dimensions. But then again, they also had smaller “band box” stadiums back then too, I think.
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It had to be strange to have a band box field like Ebbets in Brooklyn, and the massive CF dimensions of the Polo grounds in NY. Those quirky stadiums must have made home/road games interesting. Didn’t the original Yankee stadium also have a huge CF and short RF porch ala the Polo Grounds?
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Yep. 450 feet to CF with a 296 foot RF porch.
In searching for this I found this website called Clem’s Baseball, which has nifty diagrams of stadiums. I had no idea that in 1969 they moved home plate up by 10 feet at Dodger Stadium–I had assumed that the current dimensions had always existed.
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I remember that. That was why prior to 69 Dodger Stadium was even more of a pitchers park. The plate was moved up ten feet at Dodger Stadium and the mound was lowered in all of baseball and no more would Len Gabrielson lead a Dodger team in home runs with 10.
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