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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."
In baseball, batting average (AVG) is a measure of a batter's success rate in achieving a hit during an at bat. In Major League Baseball (MLB), it is calculated by dividing a player's hits by his at bats (AB). In MLB, a player in each league wins the "batting title" each season for having the highest batting average that year.
List of Major League Baseball annual fielding errors leaders; List of Major League Baseball career fielding errors as a pitcher leaders; List of Major League Baseball career fielding errors as a catcher leaders. List of Major League Baseball career passed balls leaders; List of Major League Baseball career fielding errors as a first baseman leaders
Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball’s career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb’s .367, when Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were incorporated ...
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. The last Major League Baseball (MLB) player to do so, with enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting championship, was Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox , who hit .406 in 1941. [ 4 ]
Since his three-homer, two-steal game on Sept. 19 to clinch the first 50-50 season in MLB history, Ohtani has hit .706/.737/1.412 with six homers, six doubles, 14 runs, 20 RBI and eight stolen ...
List of Major League Baseball career records; List of Major League Baseball single-season records; List of Major League Baseball single-game records; List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable; List of Major League Baseball record breakers by season; List of Major League Baseball individual streaks
The MLB batting average climbed to .264 in 1977 and generally remained in the .260s for about the next three decades. But at the turn of the century, the emphasis turned to home runs.