MLB: Top 20 Players with the Most Doubles in a Season
Earl Webb Has Held the Single-Season Doubles Record for Over 80 Years
Yesterday, Sports List of the Day gave you baseball’s all-time career doubles leaders. Tris Speaker had the most. He also appears on today’s list – the most doubles hit in a single-season. Speaker hit 59, seventh most in a season, in 1923.
But it’s Earl Webb, who hit 67 for the Boston Red Sox in 1931, who holds the single-season record.
Hitting a lot of doubles in one year was once a frequent occurrence – look at all the players on today’s list from the 1920′s and 1930′s (12 of the 20, including the top six). Then, nothing for the most part, until around 1999/the 2000′s. Only Ed Delahanty (1899) and George Kell (1950) make an appearance outside those two time periods. Interesting.
But there are still a lot more players who have hit at least 50 doubles in a single season, and they represent different decades – but again the 1920′s, 1930′s, 1990′s and 2000′s dominate. Check out the full list and see for yourself, from my source baseball-reference.com.
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| 1. | Earl Webb | 67 | 1931 | Boston Red Sox | L |
| 2. | George Burns | 64 | 1926 | Cleveland Indians | R |
| 2. | Joe Medwick | 64 | 1936 | St. Louis Cardinals | R |
| 4. | Hank Greenberg | 63 | 1934 | Detroit Tigers | R |
| 5. | Paul Waner | 62 | 1932 | Pittsburgh Pirates | L |
| 6. | Charlie Gehringer | 60 | 1936 | Detroit Tigers | L |
| 7. | Todd Helton | 59 | 2000 | Colorado Rockies | L |
| 7. | Chuck Klein | 59 | 1930 | Philadelphia Phillies | L |
| 7. | Tris Speaker | 59 | 1923 | Cleveland Indians | L |
| 10. | Carlos Delgado | 57 | 2000 | Toronto Blue Jays | L |
| 10. | Billy Herman | 57 | 1935 | Chicago Cubs | R |
| 10. | Billy Herman | 57 | 1936 | Chicago Cubs | R |
| 13. | Garret Anderson | 56 | 2002 | Anaheim Angles | L |
| 13. | Craig Biggio | 56 | 1999 | Houston Astros | R |
| 13. | Nomar Garciaparra | 56 | 2002 | Boston Red Sox | R |
| 13. | George Kell | 56 | 1950 | Detroit Tigers | R |
| 13. | Joe Medwick | 56 | 1937 | St. Louis Cardinals | R |
| 13. | Brian Roberts | 56 | 2009 | Baltimore Orioles | B |
| 19. | Lance Berkman | 55 | 2001 | Houston Astros | B |
| 19. | Ed Delahanty | 55 | 1899 | Philadelphia Phillies | R |
| 19. | Gee Walker | 55 | 1936 | Detroit Tigers | R |
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