As of the 2009 season, Bernie Williams was the last New York Yankee to win the American League batting tiitle with a .339 average in 1998.
That player was Don Mattingly of the New York Yankees.
In his second season with the New York Yankees, O'Neill won the American League batting title with a .359 average.
In 1928, Goose Goslin of the Washington Senators won the A.L. Batting Title with a .379 average. The National League winner was Rogers Hornsby of the Boston Braves with a .387 average.
Don Mattingly of the Yankees won the A.L. Batting title in 1984 with a .343 average.
The last Yankees hitter to win an American League batting title was Bernie Williams, who had a .339 average in 1998. Paul O'Neill won a title by hitting .359 during the 1994 season. And Don Mattingly led the A.L. in batting with a .343 average in 1984.
In addition to being on the World Champion Yankees in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 & 2009, Derek Jeter was also the 2000 World Series MVP and the 2000 Babe Ruth Award winner.
That is done to ensure that a winner can be crowned for the batting title. Someone may hit .359, someone else may hit .357. If the decimal point is not carried out to the thousandth, there would be a tie for the batting title. And if there is a tie for the batting title with the average rounded at thousandths, the average will be rounded at ten thousandths to see if that would determine a winner.
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Wade Boggs of the Boston Red Sox won the A.L. Batting Title in 1983 and then again from 1985 to 1988. Don Mattingly of the Yankees won the batting title in 1984.
The New York Yankees' first title was won in 1923 and their last was won in 2000.
Bill Madlock won the 1976 National League Batting title with a .339 batting average, and George Brett won the 1976 American League batting title with a .333 batting Average.
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