Ty cobb has the highest career batting average at .366
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Ty Cobb batted .367 for his career. That is the highest career batting average in major league baseball history.
Ty Cobb, who hit .367.
Ty Cobb's .367 lifetime batting average.
The highest career batting average is .367, held by Ty Cobb.
Ty Cobb was known as the Georgia Peach. He had a batting average of .367, the highest in history at the time.
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Hall of Famer Ty Cobb has Major League Baseball's highest career average. The official number is .367, though statisticians later found a mistake in the totals, and his actual career average is .366 (still the record).
Ty Cobb's lifetime average is officially .367, but actually .366. Long after Cobb's record totals of 4,191 hits and .367 average were immortalized on his Hall of Fame plaque and in baseball fans' memories, it was discovered that a 1910 game in which Cobb went 2 for 3 was double counted in the season stats. The commissioner ruled that the .367 and 4,191 numbers would remain the official numbers, but many statistical works record the more accurate numbers of .366 and 4,189. Cobb's batting average is currently the major league record.
For the Major Leagues, it was Ty Cobb. His lifetime average is officially .367, but actually .366. Long after Cobb's record totals of 4,191 hits and .367 average were immortalized on his Hall of Fame plaque and in baseball fans' memories, it was discovered that a 1910 game in which Cobb went 2 for 3 was double counted in the season stats. The commissioner ruled that the .367 and 4,191 numbers would remain the official numbers, but many statistical works record the more accurate numbers of .366 and 4,189. # Ty Cobb (officially, though inaccurately) .367 (.36636) # Rogers Hornsby .358 (.35850) # Joe Jackson .356 (.35575) # Pete Browning .349 (.34892) # Ed Delahanty .346 (.34590)