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unusual facts about Batting average



1951 Caribbean Series

1B Lorenzo Cabrera led the Series hitters with an astronomical .619 batting average (13-for-23), while the pitching staff was led by Adrián Zabala (2-0), Hoyt Wilhelm (1-1) and Bill Ayers (1 win, 1 save).

Bill Norman

A right-handed hitting and throwing outfielder, he rose quickly to the major league level as player, when he was called up to the Chicago White Sox in 1931 after hitting .366 in the Class C Western Association.

Brian Horwitz

At Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino, California, Horwitz was Mission League MVP, All-Valley, and first team All-CIF Division I as a senior, batting .415.

Cecil Travis

His career batting average of .314 is a record for AL shortstops, and ranks third among all shortstops behind Honus Wagner (.327) and Arky Vaughan (.318).

Danny Richar

He hit .346 with 5 home runs in 32 games for the White Sox Triple-A team, the Charlotte Knights, before being recalled by the big league club on July 28, 2007, after second baseman Tadahito Iguchi was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies.

Gil Coan

In 1947, Coan made 21 hits in 42 at bats for a .500 batting average to collect the highest BA for any player who had 30 or more at-bats in a major league season, setting a record that was surpassed by Rudy Pemberton in 1996 with a .512 BA (21-for-41).

Grady Hatton

Hatton batted .254 with 91 home runs in a 12-year big league career with Cincinnati, the Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles and Chicago Cubs, for whom he served as a player-coach in 1960 at the end of his playing career.

Janeiro Tucker

Tucker played a full part in Bermuda's 2005 ICC Trophy campaign in July of that year, as they claimed third place in the competition, averaging 46.40 with the bat and scoring 132 against the USA at Waringstown, as well as taking seven wickets.

Joe Tipton

After being signed by the Indians, Tipton made his professional debut with the Appleton Papermakers of the Wisconsin State League, where he had a .298 batting average and 11 home runs in 59 games.

Kent County Cricket Club in 2005

However, only Shahriar Nafees passed 20 in the second innings, Tushar lost his golden touch (before this innings, he had made 455 runs at a batting average of 65) to only scamper 12 runs, while Antiguan-born Robert Joseph took five for 19 with his pace bowling.

Kerby Farrell

Farrell in his playing days was a first baseman and veteran minor-leaguer who played two full MLB seasons during the World War II manpower shortage, with the 1943 Boston Braves and the 1945 Chicago White Sox, batting .262 with no home runs and 55 runs batted in.

Kevin Seitzer

Seitzer hit .323 with 15 home runs and 207 hits (tying the MLB record) in his rookie 1987 season and, though overshadowed by fellow rookie teammate Bo Jackson, he was selected to the American League All-Star team.

Kid Durbin

Before he was traded by the Cubs on January 18, 1909 along with Tom Downey to the Cincinnati Reds for John Kane, he had a batting average of only .250 and over 14 games played.

Mark Lavender

In total, Lavender played 53 first-class matches, scoring 3102 runs at an average of 34.08 with a highest score of 173* achieved against New South Wales .

Milwaukee Grays

The Grays were managed by former major league right fielder Jack Chapman, whose nickname was "Death to Flying Things." Their best hitter was left fielder Abner Dalrymple, who led the team in batting average (.354), slugging percentage (.421), runs (52), and doubles (10).

Nadine George

She was retained for the IWCC Trophy in the Netherlands in July 2003, and made 114 runs at a batting average of 38 as the West Indies won four of five matches and qualified for the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup.

Nick Esasky

During his career, which spanned just over seven-and-a-half years and was spent mostly with the Cincinnati Reds (1983 to 1988), the former first-round draft pick in 1978 hit .250 with 122 home runs and 427 runs batted in.

Ormond Butler

One bright spot was Ed Swartwood's winning of the batting crown with a .357 average, although the entire team hit only .247.

Pete Palmer

In 1982, Palmer gained notoriety when he recognized a scorekeeper's error as he pored over decades-old box scores, discovering that Nap Lajoie's 1910 batting average was several points higher than Ty Cobb's, causing the official Major League Baseball record books to be re-written.

Ray Mueller

He did not catch every inning for the 1944 Reds (backups Len Rice, Joe Just and Johnny Riddle handled 17 total chances) but Mueller handled 545 chances, threw out 39 percent of would-be base-stealers, and batted a career-high .286 with ten home runs and 73 runs batted in.

Ryan Butterworth

He played a vastly increased number of matches in 2009–10, appearing 12 times for the Mashonaland Eagles, averaging over 30 with the bat, and passing 100 on two occasions.

Stan Spence

A part-time player for the Boston Red Sox during two years, Spence played his first full-season for the Washington Senators in 1942 and he responded ending third in the American League batting race with a .323 average behind Ted Williams (.356) and Johnny Pesky (.331).

Toni Stone

During the fifty games that Stone played for the Clowns, she maintained a .243 batting average, and one of her hits was off the legendary Satchel Paige.

Tookie Gilbert

Gilbert was a formidable slugger during his minor league career in the Class AA Southern Association, where he played for the Nashville Vols, and led the American Association in homers with 29 in 1951 while a member of the Minneapolis Millers, but as a major leaguer he batted only .203 in 183 games played and 482 at bats in appearances for the 1950 and 1953 Giants.

Yoandy Garlobo

Garlobo was the designated hitter for Cuba at the tournament, where he had a .480 batting average—second only to Ken Griffey, Jr. among players with at least 20 plate appearances—and was named to the all-tournament team.


see also

1904 Detroit Tigers season

In the year before Ty Cobb's arrival, pitcher George Mullin had a higher batting average than any of the team's regulars at .290.

50–40–90 club

While the significant number is the same for the two sports, a baseball player with a batting average of .300 is referred to as a "three hundred hitter" and not a "30% hitter", a basketball player shooting .900 on free-throws will be referred to as a "90% free-throw shooter", not a "nine-hundred shooter".

Amy Bender

Bender grew up as a fan of the Kansas City Royals where she was a huge fan of George Brett and she learned how to do his batting average when she was in third grade.

Andy Kyle

After his brief major league stint, Kyle played for the New Orleans Pelicans of the Southern Association in 1913, where his batting average fell to .194.

Bill Armour

In 1893, Armour played for the Kansas City Blues in the Western Association and saw his batting average jump to .280 with 22 runs scored and 14 stolen bases in only 20 games.

Bob Duliba

Through his career, Duliba had significant success against some of the games toughest hitters, including holding Hall of Famers Hank Aaron, Luis Aparicio, Ernie Banks, Roberto Clemente, Al Kaline, Willie Mays, Bill Mazeroski, and Duke Snider to a .114 collective batting average (4-for-35).

Dan Uggla

With 80 hits in 443 plate appearances, Uggla tied Rob Deer for the lowest season batting average for a player qualifying for the batting title.

Doug Selby

It should be noted that A.B. Carr was portrayed as a kind of Bizarro World opposite of Perry Mason - unscrupulous, amoral and cynical; and Doug Selby as the opposite of Hamilton Burger, being concerned solely with justice and equity, not caring a fig about his batting average as a prosecutor; or about his image in the press.

Frank Duncan

In 1935, Duncan had a .102 batting average for the New York Cubans.

Jane Stoll

The only regular to have a significant year for them was Evelyn Wawryshyn, who tied for sixth place in the league with a .266 batting average, while ranking among the top ten hitters in stolen bases, hits and 126 total bases.

Johnny Temple

Temple enjoyed his best year in 1959, with career-highs in batting average (.311), home runs (8), RBI (67), runs (102), hits (186), at-bats (598), doubles (35) and triples (6).

Ken Griffey, Sr.

In 1975, Griffey began to break out with a .305 batting average with four home runs and 46 RBIs.

Kerry Robinson

Robinson graduated from Hazelwood East High School and was a three sport star, and holds the highest career batting average (.517) in school history, and also for goals scored (29) on the ice hockey team.

Nobuhiko Matsunaka

He hit his 200th career home run against Chiba Lotte Marines submariner Shunsuke Watanabe on April 17 and finished the year with a .315 batting average, 46 home runs and 121 RBI, leading the league in home runs and RBI for the second straight season and becoming the first hitter in NPB history to record more than 120 RBI in three straight seasons.

Pete Whisenant

In his only year as a semi-regular, in 1956, he played in 103 games for the Cubs and reached career highs in homers (11), RBI (46) and batting average (.239).

Ray Oyler

Before the Pilots even played their first game in 1969, Seattle radio disc jockey Robert E. Lee "Bob" Hardwick looked over the list of players drafted by the Pilots, discovered Oyler's batting average and created the "Ray Oyler Fan Club," initially as a radio bit on his radio show.

Oyler's batting average had dropped to .135, and Smith had four quality outfielders in Willie Horton, Jim Northrup, Al Kaline, and Mickey Stanley.

Secondary average

Adam Dunn is an example of a current player who has a low batting average but an excellent secondary average, resulting from his high walk totals and power numbers.

For example, in 1990, Bill James identified Eric Davis as the most productive batter with a career average below .275; in spite of his low batting average, Davis had a career secondary average of .504, which was the highest of any active player at the time.

Tommy Davis

He was also one of the most proficient pinch-hitters in baseball history with a .320 batting average (63-for-197) – the highest in major league history upon his retirement, breaking the .312 mark of Frenchy Bordagaray.