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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 addition, he also holds the single-season record for highest batting average in major league history at .466 in 1943.
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 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 ...
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. Since then, Gibson not only holds the new record for career batting average, but also the records for career OPS with 1.177 and slugging percentage with .718, as well as the single-season records in ...
Juan Soto becomes the highest paid player in MLB history with a 15-year, $765 million deal. ... was in high demand from Major League Baseball’s ... he has a .953 career OPS and has won a batting ...
List of Major League Baseball All-Star Game records; List of Major League Baseball attendance records; List of Major League Baseball postseason records. List of World Series career records; List of World Series single-game records; List of World Series single-series records
Left fielder Ted Williams, who played 19 seasons for the Boston Red Sox, has the highest career on-base percentage, .4817, in MLB history. [4] Williams led the American League (AL) in on-base percentage in twelve seasons, the most such seasons for any player in the major leagues. [4] [5] Barry Bonds led the National League (NL) in ten seasons ...
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 ...