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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 has the highest major-league career batting average (.372). He is also the most recent player to hit .400 in a season (1943). In modern times, a season batting average of .300 or higher is considered to be excellent, and an average higher than .400 is a nearly unachievable goal.
There are only five players with a career average of .350 or higher, three of whom played exclusively in the Negro leagues: Gibson, Oscar Charleston, and Jud Wilson. [75] 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 ...
List of Major League Baseball players with a .400 batting average in a season; Other ... List of Major League Baseball career saves leaders. 300 save club;
Judge also surpassed Yankees legend Babe Ruth by getting to 300 in 3,428 career at-bats. ... 101 walks, a .466 on-base percentage and .699 slugging average, and he's second with a .332 batting ...
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.
Shoeless Joe Jackson of the Cleveland Naps hit .408 in 1911, the highest batting average ever recorded by a rookie in the American League. Joe Strong has the lowest career batting average among players who have batted .400 in a season with .266, while Gibson – with .372 – recorded the highest career average in major league history. [12]
In cricket, a player's batting average is the total number of runs they have scored divided by the number of times they have been out.Since the number of runs a player scores and how often they get out are primarily measures of their own playing ability, and largely independent of their teammates, batting average is a good metric for an individual player's skill as a batter.