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Playing for the Cangrejeros de Santurce, Gibson won the batting title that season with an average of .480, recognized as the record for that league. [43] [44] Barry Bonds referred to "Josh Gibson's 800 home runs" in his post-game press conference after hitting his 756th MLB home run. [45]
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."
With the official merging of the numbers, Gibson becomes baseball’s career leader in batting average at .372, surpassing Ty Cobb’s .367. Gibson’s .466 batting average for the Homestead Grays ...
Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball’s career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb’s .367, when Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were incorporated ...
Josh Gibson has the highest major-league career batting average (.372). He is also the most recent player to hit .400 in a season (1943). In modern times, a season batting average of .300 or higher is considered to be excellent, and an average higher than .400 a nearly unachievable goal.
Josh Gibson now leads in several major statistical categories after MLB integrated Negro League statistics into its historical record. ... Single-season batting average. Josh Gibson — .466 (1943 ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball’s career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb’s .367, when Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were incorporated Tuesday after a three-year research project.
Josh Gibson currently holds the highest mark in Major League history by posting a .4658 (.466) batting average in 1943 with the Homestead Grays. [7] Under the current 3.1 PA qualification, players have posted a .400 batting average for a season 28 times. [20] Ted Williams' .4057 in 1941 is the most recent such season, one of 13 to occur since ...