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Gibson never recorded a batting average of under .316 in any qualifying season. 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
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.
In baseball, batting average (BA) is determined by dividing a player's hits by their total at-bats. It is usually rounded to three decimal places and read without the decimal: A player with a batting average of .300 is "batting three hundred". If necessary to break ties, batting averages could be taken beyond the .001 measurement.
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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.
Rank Player (2025 HRs) HR 1 Barry Bonds: 762 2 Hank Aaron* : 755 3 Babe Ruth* : 714 4 Albert Pujols: 703 5 Alex Rodriguez: 696 6 Willie Mays* : 660 7 Ken Griffey Jr.
2 Batting. 3 Pitching. 4 Baserunning. 5 Other. 6 See also. ... List of Major League Baseball leaders This page was last edited on 20 November 2024, at 17:54 (UTC ...
Hugh Duffy set a National League record in 1894 that has never been matched with a .440 batting average. Nap Lajoie's .426 batting average in 1901 remains the highest in American League history. Shoeless Joe Jackson batted .408 in 1911, the highest mark ever set by a rookie in the American League. Josh Gibson is the most recent player to hit ...