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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."
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.
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. Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers, holds the second highest career batting average of .367, and led the AL in average in 11 (or 12) seasons. [13]
Career batting average. Josh Gibson — .372 Ty Cobb — .367 Oscar Charleston — .363 Rogers Hornsby — .359 Jud Wilson — .350 Turkey Stearnes — .348. Career slugging percentage. Josh ...
Rogers Hornsby posted a .424 batting average in 1924, which was the highest mark for anyone since the turn of the 20th Century. Both are likely out of reach, but you never know.
Gibson holds the record for highest major-league career batting average at .372, [11] six points higher than Ty Cobb who has the second-highest career average at .366. [12] The record for lowest career batting average for a player with more than 2,500 at-bats belongs to Bill Bergen , a catcher who played from 1901 to 1911 and recorded a .170 ...
The 1994 NL MVP finished his career with a .297 batting average, 2,314 hits and an impressive 449 home runs. ... as Rivera is considered the greatest closer in MLB history. He's a 13-time All-Star ...
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