
#MLB BATTING AVERAGE LEADERS SERIES#
Jud Wilson played professionally from 1922 to 1945 and twice played on Negro World Series championship teams. 356 over 13 seasons before he was permanently suspended from organized baseball in 1921 for his role in the Black Sox Scandal. Other notable players include: Shoeless Joe Jackson batted. 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. Rogers Hornsby has the third highest BA of all-time, at. He had the highest career batting average in the history of the combined Negro leagues from 1920 to 1948. Oscar Charleston is second all-time with a career batting average of.

360 in 11 consecutive seasons from 1909 to 1919. In addition, he won a record 11 batting titles for leading the American League in BA over the course of an entire season. 366 over 24 seasons, mostly with the Detroit Tigers. Outfielder Ty Cobb, whose career ended in 1928, has the highest batting average in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. If necessary to break ties, batting averages could be taken to more than three decimal places. 300 is "batting three-hundred." A point (or percentage point) is understood to be.

It is usually reported to three decimal places and pronounced as if it were multiplied by 1,000: a player with a batting average of.

In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats. Ty Cobb, the all-time leader in career batting average.
