Riggs Stephenson and Bill Madlock are tied for the Cubs career batting average leader with .336.
In the history of Major League Baseball as of 2009 there are 202 players with a career batting average of .300 or better.
Hugh Duffy of the 1894 Boston Beaneaters.
Balls and strikes do not constitute a player's batting average. A batting average is calculated according to how many hits a batter has made divided by how many at-bats he has. For instance, Ichiro Suzuki had 680 At-Bats in the 2010 season. Out of those At-Bats he pulled in 214 hits. 214 divided by 680 is .315 and that is how you figure out a player's batting average.
Dustin Pedroia
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Jennie Finch, a former professional softball player, had a career batting average of .278.
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It can because players will beat out infield grounders for singles which will raise the player's batting average and, in turn, raise the team's batting average.
.320 ... to determine a player's batting average, divide the number of at bats into the number of hits.
Yes. A players batting average changes with every at bat unless the player has an average of .000 and does not get a hit, or a 1.000 average and gets a hit.
8 hits out of 40 would be a batting average of 8/40=.2 or 200.
2010 - Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers a batting average of .359
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Riggs Stephenson and Bill Madlock are tied for the Cubs career batting average leader with .336.