At the start of the 2011 season, there were 6 ...
1) Ted Williams - 521 HRs, .344 BA
2) Babe Ruth - 714 HRs, .342 BA
3) Lou Gehrig - 493 HRs, .340 BA
4) Stan Musial - 475 HRs, .331 BA
5) Albert Pujols - 409 HRs, .331 BA (through the 2010 season)
6) Jimmie Foxx - 534 HRs, .325 BA
In the history of Major League Baseball as of 2009 there are 202 players with a career batting average of .300 or better.
It can because players will beat out infield grounders for singles which will raise the player's batting average and, in turn, raise the team's batting average.
It is this equation... Number of hits ____________ Number of at bats That easy!
Only two variables affect batting average - hits and at-bats.
There is a similar sounding trick question: On which baseball team did all the players have the same batting average as each other, both before and after the game? The answer to that is the Chicago White Sox on April 16, 1940, when Bob Feller threw his opening day no-hitter. All the players had a batting average of .000 both before and after the game. (Some will argue that technically the batting averages before the game was undefined (0 divided by 0) but standard baseball scoring shows a batting average of .000 in such a case.
There are 9 players in a baseball batting order.
Baseball is a sport that uses a lot of math. Math is important for calculating the statistics for the team and the players. Some of these statistics are batting average, earned run average, and fielding percentage.
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Lou Gehrig had a .361 average with 119 at bats in world series games.http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gehrilo01.shtml
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Lou gehrig 361 This is the answer to another question: Which player, with 100 or more at bats, has the highest World Series batting average?
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