Cleon Jones led the 1969 New York Mets in batting with a .340 average.
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In 2009 Joe Mauer led the American League in batting with a .365 average
Jimmie Foxx won the 1938 American League batting title with a .349 batting Average.
In 1968, Carl Yastrzemski led the American League with a .301 average.
For an MLB batting title, yes. In 1907, Cobb led the AL and Wagner led the NL with averages of .350. When not rounding the number of decimal points in the batting average Cobb had the better average. Cobb had 212 hits in 605 at bats for a .3504 average and Wagner had 180 hits in 515 at bats for a .3495 batting average which rounds to .350.
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