Tonight Miguel Cabrera may become the 14th player to achieve baseball’s Triple Crown. But baseball isn’t the only sport with a Triple Crown. In America, the other well-known Triple Crown is for thoroughbred racing. Only 11 horses have reached that plateau.
So, how many baseball Triple Crown winners have a thoroughbred namesake (not necessarily a racing Triple Crown winner, but . . . ):
| MLBer | Horse |
| Nap Lajoie | La Joie |
| Ty Cobb | Ty Cobb |
| Jimmie Foxx | |
| Lou Gehrig | Gehrig |
| Ted Williams | Teddy Ballgame |
| Mickey Mantle | Mickey Mantle |
| Frank Robinson | Frank Robinson |
| Carl Yastrzemski | Yastrzemski |
| Paul Hines | |
| Hugh Duffy | |
| Rogers Hornsby | Hornsby |
| Chuck Klein | |
| Joe Medwick |
guess, this means in the old days, baseball was popular amongst the horse crowd.