Ted Williams
The last Boston Red Sox player to bat .400 or more was Ted Williams in 1941.
Rogers Hornsby won it TWICE with a batting average over .400 -- 1922 and 1925
No batter has achieved a batting average over 400 in a four-year period in Major League Baseball history. The last player to bat over 400 for a full season was Ted Williams in 1941 with a .406 average.
No one has ever hit .500 for an entire season. Ted Williams was the last player to hit above .400 and it will probably never happen again. To be considered a top-flight MLB player, .300 is the benchmark. Needless to say, yeah if you could hit .500 you would be considered pretty good. Hitting .500 means that you have to get a hit once every two times you are pitched to. A .300 batting average is considered great and .500 would be a superman average.
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Every hitter who has opened the season going 1 for 1, 1 for 2, 2 for 3, 2 for 5, 4 for 10 and so on can claim to have hit .400 IN a season. Batting titles FOR a season are based on a minimum number of at bats. Ted Williams holds the distinction of being the last Major League Player to do so having hit .406 average (185 for 456) in 1941.
In 1969, George Foster played in 9 games, batting in all of them. He had 5 at bats, getting 2 hits, for a .400 batting average, with 1 runs batted in. He was walked 0 times. He struck out 1 times. He hit only singles.
In 1988, Jim Acker played in 21 games, batting in all of them. He had 5 at bats, getting 2 hits, for a .400 batting average, with 0 runs batted in. He was walked 1 times. He struck out 1 times. He hit only singles.
In 1895, Henry Adkinson played in 1 games, batting in all of them. He had 5 at bats, getting 2 hits, for a .400 batting average, with 0 runs batted in. He was walked 0 times. He struck out 2 times. He hit only singles.
In 1969, Hank Aguirre played in 41 games, batting in all of them. He had 5 at bats, getting 2 hits, for a .400 batting average, with 0 runs batted in. He was walked 0 times. He struck out 1 times. He hit only singles.
In 1975, Bill Almon played in 6 games, batting in all of them. He had 10 at bats, getting 4 hits, for a .400 batting average, with 0 runs batted in. He was walked 0 times. He struck out 1 times. He hit only singles.
In 1968, Dusty Baker played in 6 games, batting in all of them. He had 5 at bats, getting 2 hits, for a .400 batting average, with 0 runs batted in. He was walked 0 times. He struck out 1 times. He hit only singles.