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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.
List of Major League Baseball career at bat leaders; List of Major League Baseball career singles leaders; List of Major League Baseball career total bases leaders; List of Major League Baseball career strikeouts by batters leaders; List of Major League Baseball career bases on balls leaders
Single-season batting records Statistic Player Record Season Ref Batting average: Babe Herman.393 1930 [19]On-base percentage: Mike Griffin.466 1894 [20]Slugging percentage
By the latter half of the twentieth century, "good-hitting pitchers" had clearly become the exception rather than the rule. The American League's adoption of the designated hitter rule in 1973 led to the widespread substitution of the DH in the pitcher's slot in the batting order in regular season, All-Star and postseason games played in AL parks.
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Gibson never recorded a batting average of under .316 in any qualifying season. Ty Cobb is second all-time with a career batting average of .366. He won a record 11 batting titles in the American League from 1907–1909, 1911–1915 and 1917–1919. Oscar Charleston is third with a career batting average of
The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball (MLB) team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They have competed in the American League (AL) since the team began play in 1969, and in the AL Central division since 1994. The team's list of records includes batting and pitching records set in single games, single seasons and careers, by both the ...