Batting average (baseball)
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In baseball, batting average is determined by dividing a player's hits by their total at-bats. It is usually rounded to three decimal places and read without the decimal: A player with a batting avera
Top batting averages for the 1877 season, as published in The Buffalo Sunday Morning News— Deacon White led the league
Josh Gibson has the highest major-league career batting average (.371). He is also the most recent player to hit .400 in a season (1943).
Hugh Duffy had a .440 average for the 1894 season.
Fred Schemanske finished his brief major-league career with a 1.000 batting average.
Nap Lajoie
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Napoléon Lajoie, also known as Larry Lajoie, was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball. Nicknamed "the Frenchman", he represented both Philade
Lajoie in 1913
Lajoie c. 1908
Napoleon Lajoie, second baseman for Cleveland, ca. 1906; from the Michael T. "Nuf Ced" McGreevy Collection of the Boston Public Library
Nap Lajoie on a 1911 American Tobacco Company baseball card