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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."
Gibson and Willard Brown are the only players to have finished in the top two in batting average in five different seasons. Oscar Charleston won batting championships in the Negro National League and Eastern Colored League, and holds the third all-time highest career batting average of .363 during a span of 21 years (1920-1941).
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.
Highest batting average Tetelo Vargas.471 1943 [1] Most singles Ichiro Suzuki: 225 2004 [2] Most doubles Earl Webb: 67 1931 [3] Most triples Chief Wilson: 36 1912 [4] Most home runs Barry Bonds: 73 2001: Most runs batted in Hack Wilson: 191 1930 [5] Most hits Ichiro Suzuki: 262 2004 [6] Most runs scored Billy Hamilton: 198 1894 [7] Highest on ...
The modern-era (post-1900) record for highest batting average for a season is held by Nap Lajoie, who hit .426 in 1901, [14] the first year of play for the American League. The modern-era record for the lowest batting average for a player that qualified for the batting title is held by Chris Davis, who hit .168 in 2018. [15]
Williams, the last man to hit .400 in an MLB season (.406 in 1941), won six American League batting titles, two Triple Crowns, and two MVP awards. He ended his career with 521 home runs and a .344 career batting average. Williams achieved these numbers and honors despite missing nearly five full seasons to military service and injuries. [80]
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He led the major leagues in SLG, OPS+, RBI, and total bases, and the NL in runs scored and OPS, but fell short of winning the batting Triple Crown, finishing second for the batting title to Tony Gwynn, who, after batting .394, had the highest average in the major leagues since Ted Williams in 1941. [44]