A quarter is another way of saying one fourth, in this setting, one fourth of a year = three months. Quarterly means something that happens every 3 months. Edit
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.
Ted Williams had .420 under current batting average calculation rules in 1941, but officially he hit .406; the actual record belongs to Tip O'Neill, who hit .492 in 1887. If yâ¦ou discount 19th century players, the record is .424 by Rogers Hornsby.