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In Major League Baseball (MLB), records play an integral part in evaluating a player's impact on the sport. Holding a career record almost guarantees a player eventual entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame because it represents both longevity and consistency over a long period of time. (For Japanese baseball records see Nippon Professional Baseball)
Among players with at least 3000 plate appearances, Babe Ruth is the all-time leader with a career slugging percentage of .6897. Ted Williams (.6338), Lou Gehrig (.6324), Mule Suttles (.6179), Turkey Stearnes (.6165), Oscar Charleston (.6145), Jimmie Foxx (.6093), Barry Bonds (.6069), and Hank Greenberg (.6050) are the only other players with a ...
In baseball statistics, slugging percentage (SLG) is a measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at-bats , through the following formula, where AB is the number of at-bats for a given player, and 1B , 2B , 3B , and HR are the number of singles , doubles , triples , and home runs , respectively:
List of Major League Baseball career records; List of Major League Baseball single-season records; List of Major League Baseball single-game records; List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable; List of Major League Baseball record breakers by season; List of Major League Baseball individual streaks
Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords, is recognized as the MLB all-time batting champion, with a career batting average of .372. [11] 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.
Different sources of baseball records present somewhat differing lists of career batting average leaders. Until the incorporation of statistics from Negro league baseball into major-league records in 2024, Ty Cobb was the consensus leader. Subsequently, he was supplanted by Josh Gibson on the official MLB leaderboard. [1]
Historical statistics for the season were later revised, such that "Bases on balls shall always be treated as neither a time at bat nor a hit for the batter." [ 20 ] In rare instances, players have concluded their careers with a perfect batting average of 1.000—through the 2021 season, there were 94 such players in major-league history, 83 of ...
This list displays a chronology of the annual top ten leaders in career base hits in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1876 through 2022. The table assists in identifying the most significant players in each era, and helps to understand the importance of many past stars.