What is the highest batting average ever recorded?

Ty Cobb
Ty Cobb
American Major League Baseball outfielder Ty Cobb was nicknamed "The Georgia Peach"
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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.
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What is the highest batting average of all time?

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.
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Who batted over 400?

On September 28, 1941, the last day of Major League Baseball's regular season, the Boston Red Sox's Ted Williams gets six hits in eight at-bats during a doubleheader in Philadelphia, boosting his average to . 406. He becomes the first player since 1930 to hit .
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Has anyone had a .500 batting average?

500 Batting Average Through 50 at-Bats. St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Aledmys Diaz accomplished an interesting feat during Monday's 12-7 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks, becoming the first player in baseball's modern era (since at least 1900) to own a batting average of .
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Is it possible to have a batting average of 1000?

To have a perfect batting average of 1.000, you have to have very few at-bats. The record for most at bats while maintaining a 1.000 batting average is three, held by John Paciorek. No player has come up to bat four times or more and gotten a hit every time.
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MLB All-Time Career Batting Average Leaders (1873-2019)



What is the lowest batting average ever?

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.
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Who has the lowest batting average in the Hall of Fame?

Only three hitters have made it to the Hall of Fame with a sub-. 260 batting average: Killebrew, Rabbit Maranville and Ray Schalk.
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Who was the greatest hitter of all time?

1. Ty Cobb. The Georgia Peach's career batting average over his 24 seasons in baseball is the highest in major league history. Plus, historians have proven he wasn't the worst human being to ever play the game as early biographies reported.
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Has anyone ever hit .400 in MLB?

Hitting . 400 for a season is quite the feat. In fact, no qualified hitter has done it since Ted Williams hit . 406 in 1941.
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Who is closest to .400 since Williams?

In 1994, Tony Gwynn led the major leagues with a . 394 batting average – the closest mark to . 400 since Ted Williams.
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Who is the closest to 3000 hits in MLB?

Tony Gwynn was the fastest player in National League history to hit the 3,000 mark; he reached the mark in his 2,284th game. Hank Aaron was the youngest NL player to accomplish 3,000 hits; he achieved the feat at 36 years, 100 days old.
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Who struck out 27 batters?

Has there ever been a 27-strikeout baseball game? No, there has never been a 27-strikeout baseball game. The all-time record for strikeouts in a 9-inning game is 20. This has been done by both Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox, and Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs.
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Who has most batting titles?

Ty Cobb won more batting titles than any other player, though the precise number is unclear because of the race in the 1910 American League.
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Has anyone thrown a 100 mph fastball?

But flamethrowers aren't a new phenomenon in Major League Baseball, going back to the days of greats such as Walter Johnson. As far as the technology of the time could tell us, Nolan Ryan threw a 100 mph fastball. Randy Johnson was clocked as high as 102.
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Who in the MLB can throw 100 mph?

Jhoan Duran gave Alex Verdugo a nasty taste of his incredible pitch. Jhoan Duran gave Alex Verdugo a nasty taste of his incredible pitch.
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How many pitchers can throw over 100 mph?

In the pitch-tracking era (since 2008), there have been 223 MLB pitchers to hit 100 on the radar gun, according to Baseball Savant's Statcast.
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Who threw 7 no-hitters in his career?

On the same day that Rickey Henderson broke Lou Brock's all-time steals record, Nolan Ryan made history as well, recording his major league record seventh no-hitter. On May 1, 1991, at the age of 44, Ryan became the oldest player to register a no-hitter.
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Who is the most feared hitter in baseball?

Ben Verlander: Barry Bonds, the most feared hitter in all of baseball, belongs in the Hall of Fame I Flippin' Bats | FOX Sports.
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Who is the most feared batter in baseball?

1. Miguel Cabrera, 3B, Detroit Tigers. After winning the first batting Triple Crown since 1967 during the 2012 season, Miguel Cabrera is without a doubt the most feared hitter in the majors.
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What MLB team has no Hall of Famers?

What MLB Teams Have No Hall of Famers? The Arizona Diamondbacks, Miami Marlins, Tampa Bay Rays, and Washington Nationals are the only active MLB teams without a single Hall of Fame inductee.
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Who has 3000 hits and is not in the Hall of Fame?

All eligible players with 3,000 or more career hits have been elected to the Hall except Palmeiro and Rodriguez, whose careers have been tainted by steroid allegations, and since 1962 all except Biggio were elected on the first ballot.
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Who is the shortest MLB Hall of Famer?

William H. “Wee Willie” Keeler was one of the smallest players ever in major league baseball at 5-foot-4, 140 pounds. But he had one of the biggest bats in the game, both figuratively and literally, weighing up to 46 ounces.
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Has there ever been a 0 0 baseball game?

In the American League, the longest 0–0 game was played between the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers on July 16, 1909. The game was called after 18 innings due to darkness at Bennett Park in Detroit.
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What is the lowest record in MLB history?

The 1899 Cleveland Spiders own the worst single-season record of all time (minimum 120 games) and for all eras, finishing at 20–134 (.
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