hank aaron has the highest batting average in baseball history.
hank aaron has the highest batting average in baseball history.
who has the highest batting average in baseball history?
hank aaron
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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yokohama baystars second-basemen bobby rose is remembered as one of the best foreign players in japanese baseball. rose hit over .300 for seven of his eight seasons in japan. he also hit three cycles during his career, the most in japanese baseball history. rose had his best season in 1999, hitting 37 home runs with 153 rbis and a .369 batting average. this remains the highest batting average in japanese baseball among right-handed hitters, and his 153 rbis ranks second-most in japanese baseball history. he also led the league with 192 hits, which was a central league season record. he led the league in hits for the second straight season in 2000, and had the second highest batting average in the central league.
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