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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 .364. He is the only player to have won consecutive Triple Crowns, having done so in 1924 and 1925.
300-win club. Cy Young is the all-time leader in wins. In Major League Baseball, the 300-win club is the group of pitchers who have won 300 or more games. Twenty-four pitchers have reached this milestone. This list does not include Bobby Mathews who won 297 in the major leagues plus several more in 1869 and 1870 before the major leagues were ...
Josh Gibson 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. Record.
Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. [ a ] He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007. The only other players to have hit 700 or more are Babe Ruth with 714, and Albert Pujols with 703. Alex Rodriguez (696), Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey Jr. (630), Jim Thome (612), and Sammy Sosa (609) are the only ...
The life and career of Lou Gehrig, with Gary Cooper as Gehrig and Babe Ruth as himself. It Happened in Flatbush: 1942 Comedy Hard-hearted manager (Lloyd Nolan) falls for Brooklyn team's owner. Ladies' Day: 1943 Comedy Sox pitcher Wacky Waters (Eddie Albert) is distracted by a hot Hollywood movie star, Pepita Zorita (Lupe Vélez). The Babe Ruth ...
a While Baseball-Reference.com lists both Yelich and Marte with a batting average of .329 in 2019, Yelich's average is higher (.3292) than Marte's (.3286) if extended to four decimal places. b The major league season in 2020 was less than half the length of a typical season, starting in late July and condensed into 60 games due to the COVID-19 ...
Cy Young [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] holds the MLB win record with 511; Walter Johnson [ 4 ] is second with 417. Young and Johnson are the only players to earn 400 or more wins. Among pitchers whose entire careers were in the post-1920 live-ball era, Warren Spahn [ 5 ] has the most wins with 363. Only 24 pitchers have accumulated 300 or more wins in their ...
5 Steve Carlton (1972, 1974, 1980, 1982–1983) 5 Roger Clemens (1988, 1991, 1996–1998) 5 Justin Verlander (2009, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018) 4 Dizzy Dean (1932–1935) 4 Warren Spahn (1949–1952) 4 Sandy Koufax (1961, 1963, 1965–1966) § In 1998, because of a mid-season trade, Randy Johnson led Major League Baseball in strikeouts, but neither ...