Chuck Klein - Career Highlights

Career Highlights

  • MVP (1932)
  • Triple Crown (1933)
  • Twice All-Star (1933–34)
  • 4-time led league in home runs (1929, 1931–33)
  • Led league in home runs (38) and stolen bases (20) in the same season (1932). He was the third and last player to do so (the others being Jimmy Sheckard and Hall of Famer Ty Cobb).
  • Hit 4 home runs in one game (1936)
  • 3-time led league in runs batted in (1931, 1933, 1936)
  • 3-time led league in runs (1930–32)
  • Led league in batting average (1933)
  • Twice led league in OPS (On-base percentage Plus Slugging percentage) (1932–33)
  • Twice led league in hits (1932–33)
  • 5-time collected more than 200 hits (1929–33)
  • 4-time led league in total bases (1930–33)
  • 4-time led league in extra-base hits (1929–30, 1932–33)
  • Led league in triples (1932)
  • Twice led league in doubles (1930, 1933)
  • Led league in stolen bases (1932)
  • Holds the single-season record for assists by a right fielder (1930)
  • Twice 26-consecutive-game hitting streak in the same season (1930)
  • Hit safely in 135 of his team's 156 games (1930)
  • Twice hit for the cycle (1931, 1933)
  • Holds the record for most home runs (83) over the first two calendar years (through May 2009)
  • Twice led league in games played (1930, 1932)
  • In 1930, hit 40 home runs (2nd in league (Hack Wilson, 56)); 170 RBI (2nd in league (Hack Wilson, 191); 59 doubles (record at time); 158 runs; batted .386; had a .687 Slugging % (2nd in league (Hack Wilson, .723))
  • Holds the NL record for Extra Base Hits in a season, 107 in 1930

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