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[4] [5] There have been 50 officially-recognized instances of a player have recorded a batting average of at least .400 in a single Major League Baseball (MLB) season, [A] but none have done so since 1943, when Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays hit .466, the single-season record.
In modern times, a season batting average of .300 or higher is considered to be excellent, and an average higher than .400 is a nearly unachievable goal. The last Major League Baseball (MLB) player to do so, with enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting championship, was Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox , who hit .406 in 1941. [ 4 ]
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Miami Marlins base runner Luis Arraez (3) hits a single for an RBI during the seventh inning of an MLB game against the Philadelphia Phillies at loanDepot park in the Little Havana neighborhood of ...
The calendar has turned to June and Miami's Luis Arraez is flirting with a .400 batting average. Considering the last man to hit that hallowed number for a full season — Boston's Ted Williams ...
Josh Gibson has the highest career batting average in major league history with .372. In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats. It is usually reported to three decimal places and pronounced as if it were multiplied by 1,000: a player with a batting average of .300 is "batting three-hundred."
But a .400 batting average is one of the most illustrious numbers in baseball. It's a figure hitters have been chasing ever since Ted Williams eclipsed that mark with a .406 average in 1941.
Ted Williams, the last MLB player to bat .400 for a season (in 1941) A ballplayer's batting average (BA) (simply hits divided by at-bats) was the historic measure of a player's offensive performance, enhanced by slugging percentage (SA) [a] which incorporated their ability to hit for power.