gil hodges has the highest single season batting average in mlb history.
gil hodges has the highest single season batting average in mlb history.
who has the highest single season batting average in mlb history?
gil hodges
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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on june 19, 1963, coming off the bench, brown became the 11th american league batter to hit a home run in his first at bat. a popular figure among tigers fans, brown may not have had the defensive skills to make the everyday lineup but he has been considered one of the premier pinch hitters in mlb history. brown divided his major league career as an outfielder, first baseman, pinch hitter and designated hitter, all with the detroit tigers. he is best remembered for his contribution to the 1968 world series championship. in his pinch hit at bats in the 1968 season, brown hit for a .450 batting average, the eighth-highest single season batting average for a pinch hitter (minimum 30 at bats) in major league history.
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