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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.
O'Neill's batting average had to be calculated without counting walks as hits, because of the walk-as-base-hit rule being in effect that year only. Hugh Duffy broke O'Neill's record for highest mark in 1894 by posting a .4397 (.440) batting average with the Boston Beaneaters, which is considered the third highest mark of all-time. [18]
List of Major League Baseball career batting average leaders; ... Baseball players with a .400 batting average in a season ... last edited on 20 November 2024, ...
September 28, 2024 at 8:33 PM. If Shohei Ohtani wants to win the first NL Triple Crown since 1937, it looks like he's going to get no help from the San Diego Padres. ... That left batting average ...
At the end of the 2024 season, the only active player with a .300 batting average is Jose Altuve at .306 (Freddie Freeman is at .300 by rounding, with his actual average at .2999). [76] The record was previously held by Cobb until the integration of Negro league statistics into Major League Baseball's record books on May 28, 2024.
In modern times, a season batting average of .300 or higher is considered to be excellent, and an average higher than .400 is a nearly unachievable goal. The last Major League Baseball (MLB) player to do so, with enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting championship, was Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox , who hit .406 in 1941. [ 4 ]
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 among leaders in career batting average. A blank field indicates a tie. Player: Name of the player. BA: Total career batting average. * Denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame. Bold: Denotes players who only played in the Negro Leagues between 1920 and 1948. Bold: Denotes active player.