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Retrosheet gives Cobb the same number of hits in five more at-bats (11,439), [164] and Baseball Reference and the Baseball Hall of Fame add one more at-bat (11,440). [165] All of these round to .366. MLB.com lists Cobb's lifetime average as .367 (4,191 hits in 11,429 at-bats), [ 166 ] the number that had been reported and believed true from ...
Oscar Charleston, Ty Cobb, Ed Delahanty, and Rogers Hornsby (left to right) are the only players to record a .400 batting average in three different seasons. In baseball , batting average (AVG) is a measure of a batter's success rate in achieving a hit during an at bat , [ 1 ] and is calculated by dividing a player's hits by his at bats. [ 2 ]
Different sources of baseball records present somewhat differing lists of career batting average leaders. Until the incorporation of statistics from Negro league baseball into major-league records in 2024, Ty Cobb was the consensus leader. Subsequently, he was supplanted by Josh Gibson on the official MLB leaderboard. [1]
Listed are all Major League Baseball players who have reached the 2,000 hit milestone during their career in MLB. Pete Rose holds the Major League record for most career hits, with 4,256. Rose and Ty Cobb, second most, are the only players with 4,000 or more career hits.
The Hall of Fame credits Lajoie with 129 hits in 352 at bats (.368) [371] while MLB and Baseball-Reference.com show 133 hits in 352 at bats (.378). [ 372 ] [ 373 ] According to Baseball-Reference a player qualified for a batting title prior to 1920 by appearing in 60% of his team's games—82 games in the 136 game schedule in 1902—and Lajoie ...
This is the back of a North Carolina family’s rare T206 Ty Cobb baseball card being auctioned by New Jersey-based Robert Edward Auctions on Nov. 22, 2024.
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The Tigers' 1915 outfield, with Bobby Veach in left, Ty Cobb in center, and Sam Crawford in right, has been ranked by baseball historian Bill James as the greatest outfield of all time. [1] Though the league batting average in 1915 was .248, Cobb hit .369 with 99 RBIs and 144 runs scored, Crawford hit .313 and drove in 112 runs, and Veach hit ...