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	Ty Cobb - MSN Encarta
		Beginning in 1907 he captured nine consecutive batting titles and he led the AL in hits seven times between 1907 and 1917.
		In addition to his career batting average mark, Cobb established many major league and AL records during his 24 years of play.
		These included the most career hits (4,191), a record broken by Pete Rose in 1985; career runs (2,245), broken by Rickey Henderson in 2001; and most stolen bases in a season (96 in 1915), a record first eclipsed by Maury Wills, who stole 104 bases in 1962.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558996/Ty_Cobb.html (362 words)

	Historical Matchups \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Gwynn's remarkable total of eight batting titles (tying him with Honus Wagner for the most in NL history) includes five of the top eleven batting averages compiled since the end of World War II.
		After finishing his career in 1928 with the highest career batting average in history (.366), Cobb was the leading vote-getter among charter members of the Hall of Fame in 1936.
		His amazing success was due mainly to quickness and bat control; choking up on the bat with his hands about a foot apart, Cobb was able to slice balls to all fields.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/features/matchups/gwynn-cobb.stm (761 words)

	ESPN - Schwarz: Squatters' rights - MLB
		Jason Kendall has been asked if a catcher will ever win another batting title, and the Pirate backstop, who has flirted with a crown or two over the years, is quick with his response.
		Since Lombardi's batting crown in 1942, no AL catcher has finished even second in the race; the last to finish third was California's Brian Downing in 1979, when he hit.326.
		Lombardi won the only other two batting titles among catchers, in 1938 at.342 (when he had a robust total of 529 plate appearances) and also in 1942, when the 100-game rule allowed him to win one he wouldn't have today.
	sports.espn.go.com /mlb/columns/story?columnist=schwarz_alan&id=1834884 (1170 words)

	Calculating Basic Baseball Stats - Batting Average - Associated Content
		Batting Average is probably the most basic of the hitting statistics, and quite simply tells us in what percentage of a player's at bats do they get a hit.
		In other words, a hitter with a.314 batting average got a hit in 31.4% of his at bats, or almost 1/3 of his at bats.
		In 2005, the league leaders in batting average were Derrek Lee of the Chicago Cubs in the National League at.335 and Michael Young of the Texas Rangers in the American League at.331.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/40440/calculating_basic_baseball_stats_batting.html (425 words)

	Boston Red Sox - Power allies - The Boston Globe
		He has won a batting title (2002) and led the league in RBIs (1999) while averaging.325 with nearly 40 homers and 128 RBIs over the six years.
		The switch is so rock-solid in Francona's view that he indicated he does not expect to shift David Ortiz into the cleanup role and bat Garciaparra fifth in isolated cases involving certain pitching matchups.
		Batting average.350.325On-base percentage.429.426Slugging percentage.638.625"Nomar is going to be a good hitter anywhere, and so is Manny," Francona said.
	www.boston.com /sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/03/06/power_allies (843 words)

	ABC News: Mauer and Sanchez Win Batting Titles
		Mauer became the first catcher to win a batting title in either league since Ernie Lombardi hit.330 for the 1942 Boston Braves.
		Jeter, who has never won a batting title, finished second to Boston's Nomar Garciaparra in 1999 and four years later went 0-for-3 on the final day, finishing two points behind Boston's Bill Mueller and one back of Manny Ramirez.
		It was the NL-high 25th batting championship for the Pirates, the first since Bill Madlock's in 1983.
	abcnews.go.com /Sports/wireStory?id=2515984&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (495 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		His record of four batting titles as a third baseman would be eclipsed in 1988 by Wade Boggs.
		Madlock was drafted by the Washington Senators in the 5th round of the secondary phase of the 1970 amateur draft.
		Madlock won two more batting titles, in 1981 and 1983, making him the first player to win multiple batting titles with two different teams.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Bill_Madlock (689 words)

	Batting titles won by Mauer, Sanchez - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Joe Mauer became the first catcher to win the American League batting title, going 2 for 4 for the Minnesota Twins on the final day of the regular season to hold off the New York Yankees' Derek Jeter.
		Mauer became the first catcher to win a batting title in either league since Ernie Lombardi hit.330 for the 1942 Boston Braves.
		Pittsburgh's Freddy Sanchez won the NL batting title for the first time, going 2 for 4 against Cincinnati to wind up at.344, five points ahead of Florida's Miguel Cabrera.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2006/Oct/02/sp/FP610220320.html (305 words)

	Amazon.com: "batting titles": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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		As an outfielder in 1968 and 1969, he won consecutive NL batting titles with.335 and.348 averages.
		In 1973, he won another batting title with a.338 average and also was named...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/batting-titles (310 words)

	Baseball Historian - Part of the Sports Historian Network
		Batting Crown Kings - the batting leaders in the beginning of the 20th century note the high number of Hall of Famers.
		Every ballplayer who has batted over.400 for a single season is in the 'Hall of Fame', except Shoeless Joe Jackson who was banned for throwing the 1919 World Series.
		Ross Barnes won the first-ever batting title in 1876 with a.404 average.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /html/american_heroes.cfm?page=39 (895 words)

	DRaysBay :: A Tampa Bay Devil Rays Blog
		It's not as if you're truly harming a Mauer type, since usually the batting title winner will have a pretty large OBP as well, it just seperates the boys from the men in terms of overall hitters.
		Batting titles should still be determined by average.
		If they are first and second in the batting title race, using this method, player A wins the title even though player B has a BA of.3278 to A's.3274.
	www.draysbay.com /story/2007/4/21/1782/71973 (1171 words)

	Left Fielders
		Williams'.344 batting average ranks sixth on the all-time list, but his.634 slugging percentage is second (behind Babe Ruth), and his.483 on-base percentage is first (ahead of Ruth's.474).
		In 1957, at the age of 39, Williams recorded one of the greatest seasons ever for an older player - a.388 batting average, a whopping.526 on-base average and a.731 slugging percentage.
		In 1968, the "Year of the Pitcher," his.301 batting average was the lowest ever to lead the league, though relative to the league average it is as impressive as Bill Terry's.401 in 1930.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /Greats/leftfield.htm (2333 words)

	National Baseball Hall of Fame - October 2001 Trivia Quiz
		When a player leads his league in batting average he is awarded many honors, one of which has been a Silver Bat.
		This man won two batting titles in the 1980s, but his.320 average for the decade of the 1970s was the highest of any National League player.
		In 1980 George Brett won the American League batting title with a.390 average, flirting with the.400 mark as late as early September.
	baseballhalloffame.org /games/quiz/quiz_2001oct.htm (328 words)

	Baseball Quick Quiz - trivia Baseball Digest - Find Articles
		Ty Cobb won his first batting title in 1907 and his last in 1919--making it 11 years that separated him from his first and last hitting championship.
		Since 1991, the player with the lowest batting average to capture his league's top hitting honors was Terry Pendleton of the Braves who won the N.L. batting race with a.319 average in 1991.
		The two other players besides Rogers Hornsby to win a batting title and collect 100 or more extra-base hits in the same season are Stan Musial of the Cardinals in 1948 and Todd Helton of the Rockies in 2000.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_2_60/ai_69057363 (898 words)

	Batting Fundamentals at Baseball Articles
		Ty Cobb’s Batting Fundamentals are from a letter that he wrote to rookie outfielder Sam Chapman on May 18, 1938.
		Ty Cobb had the highest lifetime batting average (.366) of any player in the history of baseball.
		He won more batting average titles (12) than any other player, and in 1936 he became the first player ever selected to the Hall of Fame.
	www.baseball-articles.com /battingfundamentals.html (599 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Sports: No Sophomore Jinx for Suzuki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		By the end of the week, my batting average shot up a hundred points — and with it, the sophomore jinx was hewed.
		The man won seven consecutive batting titles for the Orix Blue Wave in Japan, and the fact that he was thrown into the fire pit of the world’s best baseball league didn’t faze him a bit.
		He made eight straight batting titles and then added the game’s most prestigious honor, the Most Valuable Player award (only the second time in major history the award went to a rookie).
	www.asianweek.com /2002_03_22/sports_ichiro.html (884 words)

	Harry Heilmann
		Harry Heilmann won four batting titles, hit.403 in 1923, and is the owner of a.342 career batting average.
		In 1923, he won his second batting title, with a.403 mark.
		He would however, pick up two more batting titles for his efforts.
	z.lee28.tripod.com /sbnslegends/id33.html (537 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mauer and Sanchez win batting titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		NEW YORK — Joe Mauer became the first catcher to win the American League batting title, going 2-for-4 for the Minnesota Twins on the final day of the regular season to hold off the New York Yankees' Derek Jeter.
		Jeter, who has never won a batting title, finished second to Boston's Nomar Garciaparra in 1999 and four years later went 0-for-3 on the final day, finishing two points behind Boston's Bill Mueller and one back of Manny Ramirez.
		Pittsburgh's Freddy Sanchez won the NL batting title for the first time, going 2-for-4 against Cincinnati to wind up at.344, five points ahead of Florida's Miguel Cabrera.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/2006-10-01-final-stats_x.htm?csp=34 (856 words)

	The BASEBALL Page - The 1949 American League Batting Race
		Kell stroked two hits in three at-bats and raised his average a single point to.342, still far from the Red Sox leader.
		In the ninth Kell was scheduled to bat fourth.
		With Kell in the on-deck circle in the ninth, Rolfe received word that Williams and Kell were tied for the batting title but that Kell would win by less than two thousands of a point.
	www.thebaseballpage.com /past/special/1949_AL_batrace.htm (676 words)

	Wade Boggs, Willie McGee, and the Value of Information
		In 1985, Boggs won his second career batting title and began a stretch of four straight years with the highest batting average in the American League.
		Wade and Willie still have to look for either a fastball or a curveball, and depending on what they are looking for, their batting averages against certain types of pitches will change (looking for a fastball makes you better able to hit the fastball).
		And while the first pitch of an at bat probably gives the most information to a batter, part of the chess match lies in the fact that the batter and the pitcher are constantly updating their probabilities of what the other is likely to do.
	www.sportshistory.us /boggs-mcgee.html (1974 words)

	Agony & Ivy - Batting Titles Still Matter
		In fact, winning a batting title still means more to me than any other title a hitter can achieve.
		It comes down to this: “the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill.” One cannot win a batting title without taking care to try to hit as well as possible every at-bat.
		Yet, when you look at the players who have won batting titles in the era of huge salaries, playing as well as possible for its own sake is the common trait that distinguishes them.
	www.agonyandivy.com /pivot/entry.php?id=62 (2054 words)

	(GCKVG4) No fries on that ball! by RREngineer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He won six batting titles, blasted 521 home runs, and half a century ago amazed America by becoming the last man to bat over.400.
		It was the highest single season batting average since Rogers Hornsby’s record of.424 in 1924.
		He won the American League batting championship six times, winning that honor the final time with a.328 average at the age of 40, grandfatherly by baseball’s standards.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?WP=GCKVG4 (648 words)

	SportingNews.com - MLB - Mauer and Sanchez win batting titles on final day
		The Minnesota star became the first catcher to win the AL batting title, finishing at.347 and ending up four points ahead of the New York Yankees' captain.
		It is amazing that we are even putting batting title and catcher in the same sentence let alone his first season.
		If he wins his first batting title in his first full season it won't be an ending to a chapter it will be a beginning to his fantastic career.
	www.sportingnews.com /yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=133919 (1503 words)

	Hank Aaron Biography
		He won his first of two National League batting titles in 1956 with a.328 mark and reached the 200 hit plateau for the first time.
		Another batting title was won in 1959 (.355), and he also led the league in slugging (.636) and had his only lifetime three home run game versus the Giants.
		He ranks second in at bats (12,364) and intentional walks (293), is third in runs (2,174 tied with Ruth), games (3,298), and hits (3771), fourth in sacrifice flies (121), and ninth in doubles (624).
	www.755homeruns.com /biography.shtml (1491 words)

	Baseball Batting Equipment
		During his time at bat in a high school varsity game this week, the batter took a direct hit on the ear hole of his batting helmet.
		he should hit for a good average, which equates to winning 6 batting titles before it's all said and done, according to the over-excited guy i heard on mlb radio on xm.
		Uniforms baseball bats youth baseball bats baseball trophies baseball autographs baseball hats topps baseball cards baseball batting cage baseball playoff tickets same reason it happens beyond baseball child fitness equipment.
	awesomebaseballbats.info /BaseballBattingEquipment (417 words)

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	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Arts/Animation/Cartoons/Titles/W (289 words)

	Baseball- Mauer Kneels Before No One in Batting Race - AOL Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Only two catchers have won batting titles, each in the National League, each while playing for the Cincinnati Reds.
		Jorge Posada, Torre's catcher with the Yankees, said he saw no reason Mauer could not win the batting title but acknowledged the grueling nature of the job.
		But no one gets infield hits the way Suzuki does for Seattle, and as a.335 career hitter and a two-time batting champion, he's the hitter who could stand between Mauer and a historic batting title.
	sports.aol.com /mlb/story/_a/mauer-kneels-before-no-one-in-batting/20060618122609990001 (1059 words)

	Shigeo Nagashima
		In addition to being named 1958 Central League Rookie of the Year, Nagashima earned five Most Valuable Player Awards and led the CL in batting six times.
		During his career, he won 2 homerun titles, 5 RBI titles, 6 batting average titles, 5 MVP awards, and was named to the Best Nine team for 17 straight years.
		Nagashima retired at the end of the 1974 season and managed the Giants from 1975 to 1980 and from 1993 until the present.
	www.geocities.com /legend_of_cooperstown/nagashima.html (187 words)

	El Boricua, a bilingual , cultural publication for Puerto Ricans
		Martinez is one of the greatest hitters of all time and is best known for his 18 seasons with the Seattle Mariners where he won 2 A.L. batting titles and 5 Silver Slugger Awards.
		In 1997 he was named to the All-Star Team and had a batting average of.300.
		Among his many accomplishments he was a four time NL batting champion, won 12 Gold Gloves, an MVP Award, and a World Series Championship in 1966.
	www.elboricua.com /RicardoLopez.html (581 words)

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