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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.
The following is a list of records for a game, season, or career that were broken in each Major League Baseball season by players, teams, or others. This does not include dates when additional stats were recorded by the same player above one's own record set (unless broken by someone else in between) or records by a team that do not lead the majors.
Records Player # Season Refs Games Maury Wills: 165 1962: Highest batting average Tetelo Vargas.471 1943 [1] Most singles Ichiro Suzuki: 225 2004 [2] Most doubles Earl Webb: 67 1931 [3] Most triples Chief Wilson: 36 1912 [4] Most home runs Barry Bonds: 73 2001: Most runs batted in Hack Wilson: 191 1930 [5] Most hits Ichiro Suzuki: 262 2004 [6 ...
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
Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941, making him the last player to reach the .400 mark for a full season. Rogers Hornsby posted a .424 batting average in 1924, which was the highest mark for anyone ...
The all-time best single season record belongs to the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who posted baseball's only perfect record at 67–0 (57–0 against National Association of Base Ball Players clubs) in 1869, prior to Major League baseball. Their record stretched to 81–0 across the 1870 season before losing 8–7 in eleven innings to the ...
Joe DiMaggio reminds us that baseball is full of feats that are unlikely to be broken. Here's 27 that definitely will stand the test of time.
The single season mark of 60 stood for 34 years until Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in 1961 in the American League [12] for which MLB assigned an asterisk until reversing themselves in 1991, citing Maris had accomplished his record in a longer season. [13] Maris' league-wide record remained unbroken for 37 years until two National League players ...