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This article contains two charts: The first chart is a list of the top 50 all-time scorers in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The list includes only points scored in regular season games. The second chart is a progressive list of the leading all-time NBA scorers. [1] Refs made LeBron James the leading scorer in NBA ...
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 established in 1871.
Highest points per game average by a non-All-Star, career; 20.1 by John Williamson; Most points on Christmas Day, career; 476 by LeBron James (active) [70] [71] Highest points per game average on Christmas Day (min. 2 games played), career; 43.3 by Tracy McGrady (3 games played) [70] Highest scoring average in season openers, career
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.
Alex Rodriguez (696), Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey Jr. (630), Jim Thome (612), and Sammy Sosa (609) are the only other players to have hit 600 or more. Giancarlo Stanton is the active home run leader with 429. Players in bold face are active as of the 2025 Major League Baseball season (including free agents), with the number in parentheses ...
At 21 years and 197 days, Durant is the youngest scoring leader in NBA history, [12] averaging 30.1 points in the 2009–10 season. Stephen Curry led the league with an average of 30.1 points in the 2015–16 season and became the first player to win the title shooting 50–40–90 in a season.
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.
In baseball, batting average (AVG) is a measure of a batter's success rate in achieving a hit during an at bat. In Major League Baseball (MLB), it is calculated by dividing a player's hits by his at bats (AB). In MLB, a player in each league wins the "batting title" each season for having the highest batting average that year.