ty cobb has the best career batting average in mlb history.
ty cobb has the best career batting average in mlb history.
who has the best career batting average in mlb history?
ty cobb
ty cobb holds the record for highest career batting average with .366, eight points higher than rogers hornsby who has the second-highest career average at .358. the record for lowest career batting average for a player with more than 2,500 at-bats belongs to bill bergen, a catcher who played from 1901 to 1911 and recorded a .170 average in 3,028 career at-bats. hugh duffy, who played from 1888 to 1906, is credited with the highest single-season batting average, having hit .440 in 1894. the modern-era (post-1900) record for highest batting average for a season is held by nap lajoie, who hit .426 in 1901, the first year of play for the american league. the modern-era record for lowest batting average for a player that qualified for the batting title is held by chris davis, who hit .168 in 2018. while finishing six plate appearances short of qualifying for the batting title, adam dunn of the chicago white sox hit .159 for the 2011 season, nine points lower than the record. the highest batting average for a rookie was .408 in 1911 by shoeless joe jackson.
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helton enjoyed arguably his best season in 2000, leading the major leagues in batting average (.372), rbi (147), doubles (59), total bases (405), extra base hits (103), slugging percentage (.698) and ops (1.162). he led the national league in hits (216) and on-base percentage (.463). helton hit a league-leading home batting average of .391 and placed third in the national league in road batting average (.353). helton's mlb-leading 103 extra base hits tied for the fourth most in mlb history and the second most in nl history. his national league-leading numbers in on-base percentage, slugging percentage and batting average gave him the "percentage triple crown." helton became the second rockies player (larry walker in 1999) to accomplish that feat. helton and walker made the rockies the first team in mlb history to record percentage triple crowns in consecutive seasons with different players. helton became only the fourth player in national league history to lead the nl in both batting average and rbi. he became the first player in national league history and the fifth player in mlb history (babe ruth, lou gehrig, jimmie foxx and hank greenberg are the others) to have at least 200 hits, 40 home runs, 100 rbi, 100 runs, 100 extra base hits and 100 walks in one season.
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