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Can you name the MLB players that have batted .400 average in a season?

Enter a player (last names acceptable) in the box below
Correctly named players will show up in the table below
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This game was contributed by Sporcle user: GeoExpert
Source: baseball-almanac.com
Note: This quiz was last updated in 1941.

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Year	Player	Average
1876		.404
1884		.412
1887		.427
1887		.410
1887		.409
1887		.421
1887		.415
1887		.407
1887		.456
1887		.457
1887		.485
1887		.420
1894		.440
1894		.403
1894		.404
1894		.414
1895		.404
1895		.405

Year	Player	Average
1896		.401
1896		.410
1897		.424
1899		.410
1901		.426
1911		.420
1911		.408
1912		.409
1920		.407
1922		.401
1922		.401
1922		.420
1923		.403
1924		.424
1925		.403
1930		.401
1941		.406

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	Klingsta:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 20:05 GMT	12 points
	a feat that will probably never be accomplished again. enjoy the list

	jtrichey:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 20:10 GMT	26 points
	Note: This quiz was last updated in 1941. Funny

	btroup1:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 20:14 GMT	13 points
	Led the league in hitting in 1887. Speaker of the House during the Reagan years. What a life! Anyhow, my listening to Tim Kurkjian's baseball nuggets yielded but 8 names. Thankfully some them did it a few times.

	justagirl:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 20:19 GMT	11 points
	kudos to anyone who can get all of these without cheating.

	RandallPinkston:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 20:20 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz. Jesse Burkett's name is misspelled, though.

	CupCheck:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 20:20 GMT	0 points
	ha. different people btroup. you made me look though.

	kinskey:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 20:23 GMT	7 points
	Playing years of the Tony LaRussa Baseball II computer game helped on a few of these.

	GeoExpert:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 20:27 GMT	3 points
	Not even the creator can get half of these. It seems like 1 out of 5 years, some one makes a run. Last year it was Chipper but he slowed and finished around .370. It looks like it is already out of reach for Mauer.

	mungar:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 20:43 GMT	3 points
	Mauer is a bonus? lol

	ArtVandaley:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 20:55 GMT	1 point
	As someone who considers himself a baseball expert I was not surprised to only get 1 pre 1900 guy (although I should have got 3), but I was surprised to learn the only 1900+ guy I missed, I had never heard of. The 1923 guy led the league in batting 4 times and is in the HOF and I had no idea who he was. Guess I am not much of an expert after all!

	JohnJF:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 21:10 GMT	9 points
	GeoExpert--way to diversify.

	bmo1616:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 21:17 GMT	7 points
	Wow, here I am thinking I knew baseball and yet only got 6. I was shocked Honus Wagner was not on this list.

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 21:20 GMT	15 points
	It's questionable whether most of those guys from 1887 should be on the list. Walks were counted as hits that season. Their averages may have been calculated as over .400 at the time, but obviously for the vast majority of baseball history, that is not how batting avg has been determined. Baseball-reference does not count the walks as hits.

	dtro:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 21:31 GMT	3 points
	Well that was hard. Agreed, Bryant, I thought for sure Wagner would be on here. And why the hell couldn't I think of Rogers Hornsby?!

	G_MoNeY:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 21:31 GMT	0 points
	Wow the last person to have a .400 was 68 years ago!! and it probably won't happen for another 68 years.. it is hard to get a .400 nowadays.

	TIMTEBOW15:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 21:37 GMT	11 points
	1887 was a great year for baseball. Every time i turned the tv on, I would see a game with a .400 hitter;. I know that walkes counted as hits, but it was a great year. I wished they would have talked about it more every morning on sports center

	skittlez:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 21:48 GMT	5 points
	Great quiz!! Maybe we should get a quiz on the AL/NL Batting Title Champs... That would be good.

	Hal_10000:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 22:05 GMT	1 point
	I agree with nuclear. Those 1887 guys did not hit .400 by modern standards and are not listed as .400 hitters in most encyclopedias.

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	run2win:	Jul 8th, 2009 at 00:29 GMT	1 point
	i got everyone from 1895 on without cheating and only missed billy hamilton from the 1894 group, this pleases me greatly :)

	groug:	Jul 8th, 2009 at 00:43 GMT	2 points
	That was a fun quiz, even though I only got one of the guys from before 1900.

	ChinaWhite:	Jul 8th, 2009 at 02:48 GMT	0 points
	I'd only heard of 11 of the names on the list (counting duplicates). Anyone who got them all, was likely cheating.

	TIMTEBOW15:	Jul 8th, 2009 at 05:05 GMT	-2 points
	vote los! vote los!

	Ben:	Jul 8th, 2009 at 05:32 GMT	-1 points
	I'm pretty sure some of this list may be wrong. In the early days of baseball a walk was counted as a hit. I know for a fact no one has ever hit .485. Still, nice quiz.

	Ben:	Jul 8th, 2009 at 06:33 GMT	1 point
	http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/batting_avg_season.shtml Those are the actual averages when walks are taken out of the equation...

	bobc:	Jul 8th, 2009 at 06:33 GMT	2 points
	I just don't care when I miss a baseball player from pre-1900. Even without the walks as hits thing in 1887, the game was just so different then. They belong on the lists, but I'm only disappointed if I miss a post-1900 guy.

	cloycebox:	Jul 8th, 2009 at 07:30 GMT	6 points
	You have to put asterisks on a lot of these, not just the 1887 "walk = hit" ones. The guy who did it in 1901 -- the AL didn't count foul balls as strikes that year. The guy who did it in 1884 -- did it in a bad joke of a league (the Union Association) that is considered a major league for no good reason. The guy from 1876 -- back then a ball was "fair" if it bounced once in fair territory, so he mastered the art of bunting the ball so that it bounced fair once and then rolled past the third base foul line. None of those are achievements on par with what the modern guys on the list did.

	jbear31:	Jul 8th, 2009 at 07:53 GMT	-4 points
	10 different batters hit over .400 in 1887!!!!! and people say steroids are ruining baseball

	llewdor:	Jul 8th, 2009 at 09:52 GMT	5 points
	In 1887 it took 9 balls to walk a batter, and 4 strikes to strike him out.

	Edge:	Jul 8th, 2009 at 17:48 GMT	2 points
	I'm happy to have gotten ONE from the 19th century. Tough quiz.

	capncokenojoke:	Jul 10th, 2009 at 12:48 GMT	1 point
	the pitchers only had two fingers in 1887.. damn war..

	switzr1:	Jul 11th, 2009 at 10:31 GMT	1 point
	I can't imagine a 9-ball walk. Could you imagine how long a game must have lasted in 1887?

	ajayequalzbeast:	Jul 31st, 2009 at 20:34 GMT	1 point
	i cant believe there are some people that know all of these.

	vogz:	Aug 1st, 2009 at 08:22 GMT	-1 points
	mauer is a bonus? ichiro would be waaaay more likely to do it in my opinion

	GeoExpert:	Aug 1st, 2009 at 08:29 GMT	0 points
	@vogz: When the game was published, Mauer was batting around .390. He has dropped to around .350 since. Sporcle has not taken away the bonus yet.

	pat19:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 23:57 GMT	1 point
	@cloycebox: I disagree. NBA players who played after the creation of the three-point line do not have asterisks by their point totals. The rules of sports periodically change, and I don't think it is our duty to correct for those changes. The guys on the list for 1887 hit .400 under the rules laid out by their league; whether we think those rules are dumb or not should not matter IMO

	millandas:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 06:27 GMT	0 points
	Something must have been wrong with the ball in '87. TEN guys hit .400, and a dude hit a freakin' .485!!!! But if walks counted as hits, shouldn't Barry Bonds be a .600 hitter in '02?

	GeoExpert:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 01:45 GMT	0 points
	daser: in 1887, walks were considered hits. But for that year only. In 2002, walks were NOT hits

	Commodore:	Sep 20th, 2009 at 02:57 GMT	0 points
	Tip O'Neill...sure. He got most of his hits off a guy named Ronald Reagan. I think he played for Boston. Hit a Grand Slam with a play forever to be known as THE BIG DIG.

	Mstew:	Sep 26th, 2009 at 22:41 GMT	0 points
	Silly me forgot Ty Cobb. I still have hope that Mauer, or some other hitter that becomes huge soon will hit .400