.390 in 1980
Clemente hit .357 for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1967, his highest batting average in any one season during his career. Incidently, the Pirates finished 6th in the 10 team National League that season with an 81-81 record.
Chipper Jones won the 2008 National League Batting title with a .364 batting average, and Joe Mauerwon the 2008 American League batting title with a .328 batting Average.
Dustin Pedroia
There is a similar sounding trick question: On which baseball team did all the players have the same batting average as each other, both before and after the game? The answer to that is the Chicago White Sox on April 16, 1940, when Bob Feller threw his opening day no-hitter. All the players had a batting average of .000 both before and after the game. (Some will argue that technically the batting averages before the game was undefined (0 divided by 0) but standard baseball scoring shows a batting average of .000 in such a case.
Roger Hornsby highest batting average in a season was .424 in 1924.
Derek Jeter's highest batting average was .349, it was the 1999 season.
.390 in 1980
As of the 7th game in the 2011-2012 season the phillies are in 1st in batting average batting .337
As far as the major leagues go, Derek Jeter's highest batting average was .349, it was the 1999 season.
John Olerud holds the record for highest batting average by a New York Met in a single season with .354 in 1998
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Clemente hit .357 for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1967, his highest batting average in any one season during his career. Incidently, the Pirates finished 6th in the 10 team National League that season with an 81-81 record.
josh Hamilton who finished out the season hitting 359
Chipper Jones won the 2008 National League Batting title with a .364 batting average, and Joe Mauerwon the 2008 American League batting title with a .328 batting Average.
That would be Darren Erstad, who batted .355 in the 2000 season.
.385, Arky Vaughan, Pittsburgh Pirates, 1935