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Ted Williams had .420 under current batting average calculation rules in 1941, but officially he hit .406; the actual record belongs to Tip O'Neill, who hit .492 in 1887. If you discount 19th century players, the record is .424 by Rogers Hornsby.
Ted Williams
Ty Cobb with a .366 lifetime average. The single season leader is Hugh Duffy at .4397 in 1894.
Ted Williams of the Red Sox. Williams won the MLB batting title in 1957 with a .388 average at the age of 39 (was born August 30, 1918). Williams also won the 1958 AL batting title (.328) at the age of 40. Richie Ashburn won the MLB title that season with a .350 batting average.
In 1941, Ted Williams had a .380 batting average on the road.
Ted Williams had a .406 batting average in 1941, 185 hits in 456 at bats.
The last Boston Red Sox player to bat .400 or more was Ted Williams in 1941.
Joe DiMaggio
Ted Williams had a career batting average of .344, 521 home runs and 1,839 RBIs
Ted Williams
In 1941, Ted Williams led Major League baseball with 37 home runs.
In 1941, Ted Williams played in 143 games, all for the Boston Red Sox, and batting in all of them. He had 456 at bats, getting 185 hits, for a .406 batting average, with 120 runs batted in. He was walked 147 times, and was hit by the pitch 3 times. He struck out 27 times. He hit 33 doubles, 3 triples, and 37 home runs.
ted Williams
.406
Ted Williams had a career batting average of .344, 521 home runs, and 1,839 RBIs.
Ted Williams hit for an average of .406 in 1941 for the Boston Red Sox.