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he hit 15 home runs in his rookie season.
No player has ever hit 400 home runs in a single season. The record is 73 set by Barry Bonds in 2001.
No, he did not. The highest batting average Lou Gehrig had in one season, with the league minimum of at-bats, was .379 in 1930.
In MLB, that is Shoeless Joe Jackson of the Cleveland Indians who hit .408 in 1911.
In the early years of the American League there were many hitters who hit .400. In 1901, Nap Lajoie of the Philadelphia Athletics led the A. L. in hitting with a .422 average, the only player in the A. L. to hit over .400 that season. By the way, the last American Leaguer to hit the mark was Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox who hit .406 in 1941.