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The 1899 Cleveland Spiders own the worst single-season record of all time (minimum 120 games) and for all eras, finishing at 20–134 (.130 percentage) in the final year of the National League's 12-team era in the 1890s; for comparison, this projects to 21–141 under the current 162-game schedule, and Pythagorean expectation based on the Spiders' results and the current 162-game schedule ...
Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords, is recognized as the MLB all-time batting champion, with a career batting average of .372. [11] Gibson amassed career totals of 838 hits in 2,255 at-bats and 628 games, [12] and is also the MLB all-time career leader in Slugging (SLG) percentage and On-Base Plus Slugging (OPS) percentage.
List of Major League Baseball career records; List of Major League Baseball single-season records; List of Major League Baseball single-game records; List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable; List of Major League Baseball record breakers by season; List of Major League Baseball individual streaks
Gibson never recorded a batting average of under .316 in any qualifying season. Ty Cobb is second all-time with a career batting average of .366. He won a record 11 batting titles in the American League from 1907–1909, 1911–1915 and 1917–1919. Oscar Charleston is third with a career batting average of
Most losses in a single MLB season (since 1900): 1962 New York Mets: 120. ... As a result, the undermanned Spiders finished the 1899 season with an all-time worst record of 20-134. The Spiders ...
The New York Yankees have the highest all-time regular season win–loss percentage (.569) in Major League Baseball history. Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, which consists of a total of 30 teams—15 teams in the National League (NL) and 15 in the American League (AL). The NL and AL were formed in 1876 and ...
Josh Gibson, who played 510 games in the Negro League, holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season.
Hugh Duffy set a National League record in 1894 that has never been matched with a .440 batting average. Nap Lajoie's .426 batting average in 1901 remains the highest in American League history. Shoeless Joe Jackson batted .408 in 1911, the highest mark ever set by a rookie in the American League. Josh Gibson is the most recent player to hit ...