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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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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 ...
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 ...
Rank amongst leaders in career games played. 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 first baseman in Major League Baseball * Denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame: Bold: Denotes active player [a]
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 average in 3,028 career at-bats. [13] Hugh Duffy, who played from 1888 to 1906, is credited with the highest single-season batting average, having hit .440 in 1894. [14]