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A point (or percentage point) is understood to be .001. If necessary to break ties, batting averages could be taken to more than three decimal places. Catcher Josh Gibson, whose career ended in 1946, has the highest batting average in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. [a] He batted .372 over 14 seasons, mostly with the Homestead Grays. In ...
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.
Gibson and Willard Brown are the only players to have finished in the top two in batting average in five different seasons. Oscar Charleston won batting championships in the Negro National League and Eastern Colored League, and holds the third all-time highest career batting average of .363 during a span of 21 years (1920-1941).
He finished his MLB career with a .266 batting average, 374 home runs and 1,159 RBIs. In addition to nine All-Star nods — four with the Tigers (two apiece in 1961-62), one with the A's and four ...
Gibson holds the record for highest major-league career batting average at .372, [11] six points higher than Ty Cobb who has the second-highest career average at .366. [12] The record for lowest career batting average for a player with more than 2,500 at-bats belongs to Bill Bergen , a catcher who played from 1901 to 1911 and recorded a .170 ...
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Highlights of this record include a slash line of .366/.437/.696 through 941 plate appearances from 1933 to 1936; a .417 average and 40 home runs in 39 games in 1937; regular batting averages well over .300 for the final four seasons of his career (including a record .466 average in 1943) despite battling severe headaches due to a brain tumor ...
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