List of Major League Baseball players with a .400 batting average in a season
Below is a list of the 28 Major League Baseball players who have reached the .400 batting average milestone in a single season.
Ted Williams was the last player to hit .400, hitting .406 in 1941. Ed Delahanty, Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby all hit .400 or better three times in their careers
List
Notes:
- Minimum of 3.1 plate appearances per game
- Post-1900 averages in bold and italics
Rank | Player | League | Year | BA |
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1 | Hugh Duffy | NL | 1894 | .4397 |
2 | Tip O'Neill | AA | 1887 | .4352 |
3 | Ross Barnes | NL | 1876 | .4286 |
4 | Nap Lajoie | AL | 1901 | .4265 |
5 | Willie Keeler | NL | 1897 | .4238 |
6 | Rogers Hornsby | NL | 1924 | .4235 |
7 | George Sisler | AL | 1922 | .4198 |
8 | Ty Cobb | AL | 1911 | .4196 |
9 | Tuck Turner | NL | 1894 | .4179 |
10 | Sam Thompson | NL | 1894 | .4146 |
11 | Fred Dunlap | UA | 1884 | .4120 |
12 | Ed Delahanty | NL | 1899 | .40964 |
13 | Jesse Burkett | NL | 1896 | .40956 |
14 | Ty Cobb | AL | 1912 | .4087 |
15 | Shoeless Joe Jackson | AL | 1911 | .4081 |
16 | George Sisler | AL | 1920 | .4073 |
17 | Ted Williams | AL | 1941 | .4057 |
18 | Jesse Burkett | NL | 1895 | .4054 |
19 | Ed Delahanty | NL | 1895 | .4042 |
20 | Ed Delahanty | NL | 1894 | .4040 |
21 | Billy Hamilton | NL | 1894 | .4032 |
22 | Rogers Hornsby | NL | 1925 | .4028 |
23 | Harry Heilmann | AL | 1923 | .4027 |
24 | Pete Browning | NL | 1887 | .4022 |
25 | Rogers Hornsby | NL | 1922 | .40128 |
26 | Bill Terry | NL | 1930 | .40126 |
27 | Hughie Jennings | NL | 1896 | .4012 |
28 | Ty Cobb | AL | 1922 | .4011 |
See also related lists
- MLB players with 2,000 hits
- MLB players with 400 doubles
- MLB players with 100 triples
- Top 300 MLB home run hitters
- MLB players with 1,000 runs
- MLB players with 1,000 RBI
- MLB players with 300 stolen bases
- MLB players with a .500 slugging percentage
- MLB players with a .900 on-base plus slugging
- List of Major League Baseball players with 4,000 Total bases
- List of Top 100 Major League Baseball players in base on balls (walks)
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