nap lajoie has the highest batting average for a single season.
nap lajoie has the highest batting average for a single season.
who has the highest batting average for a single season?
nap lajoie
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.
batting average (baseball)
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. the american league (al) winner is known as the "rod carew american league batting champion", while the national league (nl) leader is designated the "tony gwynn national league batting champion". under current rules, a player must have 3.1 plate appearances (pa) per team game (for a total of 502 over the current 162-game season) to qualify for the batting title. however, if a player's lead in avg is sufficiently large that enough hitless at bats can be added to reach this requirement and the player still would have the highest batting average, he wins the title. tony gwynn, for example, had 159 hits in 451 abs in 1996 (.353 average) but only 498 pas. gwynn's batting average would have dropped to .349 (159 hits in 455 abs) with four hitless abs added to reach the 502 pa requirement, but this would still have been higher than the next-highest eligible player (.344 average), so he was awarded the 1996 nl batting title.
list of major league baseball batting champions