Tony Gwynn of this National League team has the highest career average of all active players with .340
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List of Major League Baseball batting champions - Wikipedia  In baseball, batting average (AVG) is a measure of a batter's success rate in achieving a hit during an at bat. In Major League Baseball (MLB), it is calculated by dividing a player's hits by ... Gwynn's batting average would have dropped to .349 (159 hits in 455 ABs) .... Year, Winner, AVG, Team(s), Runner-up, 2nd AVG, Ref...
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Tony Gwynn Stats, Fantasy & News | MLB.com  Get all the latest stats, fantasy news, videos and more on Major League Baseball right fielder Tony Gwynn at MLB.com. ... MLB Career Stats, 9288, 1383, 3141, 135, 1138, 319 .338 .388 .847 ..... Year, Team, League ... Batting Average...
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List of Major League Baseball career batting average leaders ...  Ty Cobb, the all-time leader in career batting average. In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats. ... He won seven batting titles in the National League (NL) and has the highest NL ... Cabrera holds the highest career batting average among active players. ... Tony Gwynn * .3382.
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MLB Baseball Career Batting Leaders - Major League Baseball ...  MLB Career Batting Leaders - Batting Average. PLAYER ... 127 .340. 16, Tony Gwynn, 20, 2440, 9288, 1383, 3141, 543, 85, 135, 1138, 790, 434, 319, 125 .338.
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Batting Average All-Time Leaders on Baseball Almanac  Baseball Almanac researches the all time batting average leaders and lists the top ... Important notes: 1,000 career games played & at-bats are needed to make this list, ... entry denotes that the player was active during the previous Major League season. ... George Sisler .340 (.34015), 13 ... Tony Gwynn .338 (.33818), 17.
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Why batting .400 has become baseball's unhittable benchmark - The ...  Jun 20, 2016 ... Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy still leads the National League in ... That night, Murphy went 1 for 3, and his batting average dropped to .397. ... again, what everyone in baseball knows intuitively: Hitting .400 over a ... 19, 1980, but didn't have a multi-hit game over his next week, and finished at...
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Batting Average Single Season Leaders on Baseball Almanac  Baseball Almanac researches the all time batting average leaders during a single season ... Ted Williams once commented about those that fail 'only' seven times out of ten ... Tony Gwynn .394 (.39379), 1994, San Diego Padres, NL, 35 ... George Brett .390 (.38976), 1980, Kansas City Royals, AL, 46 ...... Best hitter EVER?
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Barry Bonds Stats, Fantasy & News | MLB.com  (12.06 in '04)...has Major League career records with 13-consecutive 30-HR ... hitting .347 with 45 home runs and 175 RBI...named All-Pac 10 all 3 years, and ... in Major League history to win 4 consecutive MVPs (2001-2004) and no player ... Anaheim...also set big league marks with 6 intentional walks in '03 LDS and 7 in...
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List of Major League Baseball career batting average leaders ...  In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats. 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 .300 is "batting three-hundred. ... history. He batted .366 over 24 seasons, mostly with the Detroit Tigers.
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Quintet of first basemen accomplish rare feat | MLB.com  Dec 15, 2011 ... In 2011, the Major Leagues saw 16 players play at least 75 percent of ... Jimmie Foxx (186): Foxx hit 44 homers, drove in 130 runs, and had a ... 1998, 7, M. McGwire (216) ... and his 162 walks that year are the most ever for a first baseman. ... once or twice, set a new Major League record with 70 home runs.
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George Brett's quest for .400 batting average fell off pace 35 years ago  Sep 18, 2015 ... George Brett, 1980 Royals .390 ... 19, 1980, Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett went ... The last player to hit .400 was Ted Williams, who hit .406 in 1941. ... Unlike Brett, Williams had a .400 or better batting average for most of the season. ... The other last great chase: Tony Gwynn in 1994.
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Tony Gwynn Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com  Inducted into the Hall of Fame by BBWAA as Player in 2007 (532/545 ... 10/25 chickenfriars.com: Padres: Tony Gwynn Welcomed by California HOF, It's ... 10/18 High Heat Stats: MVP Elections  1967 NL: 1967 was an odd year for ..... Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1913) is taken from ... 1994 NL .394 (1st)
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Washingtonpost.com: McGwire Hits 500th Home Run in Loss  Friday, August 6, 1999; Page D1. Join the Club. Mark McGwire (AFP). Mark McGwire joins 15 other players who have hit 500 home runs or more: ... 500, a milestone the St. Louis Cardinals first baseman reached in fewer at-bats than anyone ... fielder Tony Gwynn, collected just one hit and is one shy of 3,000 for his career.
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Ty Cobb - BR Bullpen - Baseball-Reference.com  Jun 8, 2015 ... He ranks # 1 all-time by both the Gray Ink method and Hall of Fame Monitor, ... with the only player with a score higher than 670 on his Top 10 list being ..... He has the highest career batting average in major league baseball history, for ... He received more votes in the first election to the Hall than Babe Ruth...
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Tony Gwynn - Wikipedia  Anthony Keith "Tony" Gwynn, Sr. (May 9, 1960  June 16, 2014), nicknamed "Mr. Padre" and ... He is considered one of the best and most consistent hitters in baseball ... In 1994 he had a modern single-season record .394 batting average, with 64 ... Widely considered the greatest player in Padres history, Gwynn regularly...
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MLB: All-Time #MLBRank, Nos. 60-51 - ESPN  Jul 20, 2016 ... We've also rolled out the top 10 players at each position: LHP | RHP | Catchers ... He hit 521 home runs and averaged a home run every 15.7 at-bats in a ... (1995, '99-06), 12-time AL All-Star ('95, '98-08), World Series MVP (2004) ... Though not known for his defense, his 129 career outfield assists are...
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February 29, 1972 : Hank Aaron record-breaking deal  On February 29, 1972, Hank Aaron signs a three-year deal with the Atlanta Braves that pays him $200,000 per year, making him the highest-paid player in Major League Baseball at the time. Two years later, Aaron became baseball's home run king when he broke Babe Ruth's long-standing record. Aaron began his...
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Cal Ripken Jr. - Wikipedia  Calvin Edwin "Cal" Ripken Jr. (born August 24, 1960), nicknamed "The Iron Man", is an American former baseball shortstop and third baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles ... Ripken is best known for holding the record for consecutive games played, 2,632, surpassing...
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The Baseball Hall of Merit Plaque Room - Baseball Think Factory  Mar 12, 2007 ... He holds career franchise records for most HR (449), RBI (1,529), .... He led the NL in putouts and double plays 3 times, plus many times in total chances per game. ... Retired with the career records for most games as a catcher (954), ... with the World Series records for games (75), at-bats (259), hits (71),...
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George Brett - Wikipedia  George Howard Brett (born May 15, 1953), is a retired American baseball third baseman and designated hitter who played 21 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals. Brett's 3,154 career hits are the most by any third baseman in major league ... He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999 on the first ballot...
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Big Red Machine's 'Great Eight' reunites for first time | reds.com  Sep 7, 2013 ... That's because the most high-profile members of the Reds' 1975-76 ... Johnny Bench, Tony Perez, Dave Concepcion, Pete Rose, George ... 17 prospect in baseball according to MLBPipeline.com, and McKinney is now the Yankees' No. .... The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced...