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∙ 2010-01-15 06:08:41As 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.
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∙ 2010-01-15 06:08:41Don Mattingly of the Yankees won the A.L. Batting title in 1984 with a .343 average.
That would Buster Posey, who won the title in 2012, last year. Before then, it's a long gap -- the most recent before Posey was Ernie Lombardi, who won the batting title in 1942.
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.
Babe Ruth won the American League batting title one time. He won it in 1924, batting .378 with the New York Yankees.
That player was Don Mattingly of the New York Yankees.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
The New York Yankees' first title was won in 1923 and their last was won in 2000.