babe ruth has the highest career batting average in major league baseball.
babe ruth has the highest career batting average in major league baseball.
who has the highest career batting average in major league baseball?
babe ruth
outfielder ty cobb, whose career ended in 1928, has the highest batting average in major league baseball (mlb) history. he batted .366 over 24 seasons, mostly with the detroit tigers. in addition, he won a record 11 batting titles for leading the american league in ba over the course of an entire season. he batted over .360 in 11 consecutive seasons from 1909 to 1919. rogers hornsby has the second highest ba of all-time, at .358. he won seven batting titles in the national league (nl) and has the highest nl average in a single season since 1900, when he batted .424 in 1924. he batted over .370 in six consecutive seasons.
list of major league baseball career batting average leaders
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)