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The tutelage helped Robinson raise his batting average from .296 in 1948 to .342 in 1949. [154] In addition to his improved batting average, Robinson stole 37 bases that season, was second place in the league for both doubles and triples, and registered 124 runs batted in with 122 runs scored. [80]
OBP is calculated in Major League Baseball (MLB) by dividing the sum of hits, walks, and times hit by a pitch by the sum of at-bats, walks, times hit by pitch and sacrifice flies. [1] A hitter with a .400 on-base percentage is considered to be great [ 2 ] and rare; [ 3 ] only 61 players in MLB history with at least 3,000 career plate ...
After a stellar year with the team’s top minor league team in Montreal, where he led the International League with a .349 batting average, Robinson was promoted to the Dodgers as a 28-year-old ...
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."
Despite the incident, Robinson went on to have an outstanding start with the Royals, leading the International League with a .349 batting average and .985 fielding percentage, according to The ...
The award was renamed the Jackie Robinson Award in July 1987, [2] 40 years after Robinson broke the baseball color line. ... .297 batting average; 125 runs scored;
Jackie Robinson’s debut for the Dodgers marked the breaking of the “color line” in modern major league baseball, the same color line within professional baseball that had been broken in 1884 ...
On April 15, Jackie Robinson started at first base for the Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line and becoming the first black player in MLB since Moses Fleetwood Walker in the 1880s. Robinson went on to bat .297, score 125 runs, steal 29 bases, and win MLB's inaugural Rookie of the Year award. This season was dramatized in the movie 42.