willie wilson had the highest batting average for the 1980 phillies.
who has the highest batting average for the 1980 phillies?
willie wilson
among the 115 batters in this list, second baseman benny meyer has the highest batting average (1.000); he hit safely in his only at-bat with the phillies. other players with an average about .300 include art madison (.353 in one season), don mccormack (.400 in one season), irish meusel (.308 in four seasons), doc miller (.307 in two seasons), rené monteagudo (.301 in one season), and johnny moore (.329 in four seasons). magee's 75 home runs and 886 runs batted in lead all members of this list.
philadelphia phillies all-time roster (m)
ty cobb holds the record for highest career batting average with .366, eight points higher than rogers hornsby who has the second-highest career average at .358. the record for lowest career batting average for a player with more than 2,500 at-bats belongs to bill bergen, a catcher who played from 1901 to 1911 and recorded a .170 average in 3,028 career at-bats. hugh duffy, who played from 1888 to 1906, is credited with the highest single-season batting average, having hit .440 in 1894. the modern-era (post-1900) record for highest batting average for a season is held by nap lajoie, who hit .426 in 1901, the first year of play for the american league. the modern-era record for lowest batting average for a player that qualified for the batting title is held by chris davis, who hit .168 in 2018. while finishing six plate appearances short of qualifying for the batting title, adam dunn of the chicago white sox hit .159 for the 2011 season, nine points lower than the record. the highest batting average for a rookie was .408 in 1911 by shoeless joe jackson.
batting average (baseball)