CHUCK KLEIN·1933

Nineteen thirty-three sealed the crown. Chuck Klein hit .368, launched twenty-eight home runs, and drove in one hundred twenty—the National League Triple Crown, load-bearing and loud. Two hundred twenty-three hits, forty-four doubles, a .602 slug for the Phillies. Average, power, ribbies—all three on the same ledger. Do not bury the number. Baker Bowl’s porch helped the bombs; the .368 was pure bat.

TRIPLE CROWN

.368, twenty-eight homers, one hundred twenty ribbies — National League Triple Crown. Do not bury it.

.368 CLIP

Two hundred twenty-three hits on a .368 average — pure bat, not a park rumor.

120 RBI

One hundred twenty ribbies sealed the crown ledger — average, power, and production together.

Chuck Klein, Philadelphia Phillies, 1937. Leslie Jones Collection / Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth). Copyright reserved — Owner risk GO 9/7.