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Josh Gibson has the highest career batting average in major league history with .372. In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats. It is usually reported to three decimal places and pronounced as if it were multiplied by 1,000: a player with a batting average of .300 is "batting three hundred."
Josh Gibson, who played 510 games 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.
Ty Cobb was the first player to reach 3,000 games played. Cobb's record of 3,035 games played lasted for 46 seasons until Hank Aaron would break the record. Aaron's record was subsequently broken by Carl Yastrzemski in 1983 and finally broken the following season by Pete Rose, who currently holds the record for most games played at 3,562.
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Rank amongst leaders in career games caught. A blank field indicates a tie. Player (2025 Gs) Number of games played during the 2025 Major League Baseball season: MLB: Total career games played as a catcher in Major League Baseball * Denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame: Bold: Denotes active player [a]
The 1994 NL MVP finished his career with a .297 batting average, 2,314 hits and an impressive 449 home runs. ... unbreakable record for consecutive games played. Ripken shattered Gehrig's mark of ...
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.
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.