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Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game. New York: Copernicus Books, 2001. ISBN 0-387-98816-5. A book on new statistics for baseball. MLB Record Book by: MLB.com; Alan Schwarz, The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics (New York: St. Martin's, 2005). ISBN 0-312-32223-2.
List of Major League Baseball All-Star Game records; List of Major League Baseball attendance records; List of Major League Baseball postseason records. List of World Series career records; List of World Series single-game records; List of World Series single-series records
List of Major League Baseball pitchers who have thrown an immaculate inning; List of Major League Baseball career triples leaders; List of Major League Baseball players with a .400 batting average in a season; List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their final major league at bat
This list consists of players who have appeared in Major League Baseball. Note that the list also includes players who appeared in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which is not universally considered a major league. The list is broken down into a page of each letter to reduce the size.
List of Major League Baseball pitchers who have thrown an immaculate inning; List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle; List of Major League Baseball players who spent their entire career with one franchise; List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat
A hitter with a .400 on-base percentage is considered to be great [2] and rare; [3] only 61 players in MLB history with at least 3,000 career plate appearances (PA) have maintained such an OBP. Left fielder Ted Williams , who played 19 seasons for the Boston Red Sox , has the highest career on-base percentage, .4817, in MLB history. [ 4 ]
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. D. ... List of baseball players who are Olympic gold medalists and World Series champions; P ...
Ted Williams is the all-time Major League Baseball leader in on-base percentage. In baseball statistics, on-base percentage (OBP) measures how frequently a batter reaches base. An official Major League Baseball (MLB) statistic since 1984, it is sometimes referred to as on-base average (OBA), [a] as it is rarely presented as a true percentage.