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1999 marked a career-low, up to that point, for Bonds in terms of playing time. Bonds started off the 1999 season hitting well by batting .366 in the month of April with 4 home runs and 12 RBIs in the Giants' first 12 games of the season. But on April 18 he was placed on the 15-day disabled list for only the 2nd time in his career up to that point.
[4] [5] Barry Bonds led the National League (NL) in ten seasons, a NL record. [5] [6] Williams also posted the then-highest single-season on-base percentage of .5528 in 1941, a record that stood for 61 years until Bonds broke it with a .5817 OBP in 2002. [7] Bonds broke his own record in 2004, setting the current single-season mark of .6094. [7]
In Cobb's time, major league records were kept very well, but not with the absolute accuracy seen later. [160] Thus, for many years, Cobb's lifetime batting average was reported as .367, but rigorous research of source documents late 20th century found that this is wrong, as some games had been reported incorrectly. [161] [162]
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
Josh Gibson, who played 510 game 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.
Ty Cobb won more batting titles than any other player, though the precise number is unclear because of the race in the 1910 American League. In baseball, batting average (AVG) is a measure of a batter's success rate in achieving a hit during an at bat. In Major League Baseball (MLB), it is calculated by dividing a player's hits by his at bats (AB).
Barry Bonds: 5,599 3 Ty Cobb* 5,532 4 Rickey Henderson* 5,343 5 Carl Yastrzemski* 5,304 6 Stan Musial* 5,282 7 Hank Aaron* 5,205 8 Tris Speaker* 4,998 9 Babe Ruth* 4,978 10 Eddie Collins* 4,891 11 Albert Pujols: 4,880 12 Willie Mays* 4,806 13 Derek Jeter* 4,717 14 Ted Williams* 4,714 15 Mel Ott* 4,648 16 Alex Rodriguez: 4,629 17 Eddie Murray ...
1 Batting titles. 2 On-base percentage. ... with different sources giving the title to Ty Cobb or to Nap Lajoie or to both. ... 7 Barry Bonds (1992, 2001–2004, 2006 ...