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Single-Season Batting Average Leaderboard

* - Indicates Hall of Fame + - indicates hit-less at-bats added to meet 502PA requirement.

Rank	Player	Batting Average	PA	Year	Career Leaderboard
1.	Carpetbagger Jenkins	.4275	587	1887
2.	Otto Bentz	.4190	616	1887
3.	Brian Brownfield	.4104	606	1887
4.	Buster Brown	.4097	532	1887
5.	Wilfred Barrett	.4074	554	1887
6.	Carpetbagger Jenkins	.4066	578	1889
7.	Ron Hulett	.4046	644	1887
8.	Two Gun Patrick	.4035+	483	1887
9.	Charlie Shanafelt	.3996	563	1887
10.	George Wills	.3992	593	1887
11.	Shane Day	.3950	506	1887
12.	Napoleon Crane	.3905	560	1887
13.	Victor Anderson	.3885	552	1887
14.	Tim Aston	.3880	616	1887
15.	Clement Sant	.3861	614	1887
16.	Carpetbagger Jenkins	.3860	518	1890
17.	Paddy McKeehan	.3837	565	1887
18.	Ed Wales	.3806	596	1887
19.	Charlie Keffer	.3788	627	1887
20.	Charlie Shanafelt	.3761	640	1891
21.	Carpetbagger Jenkins	.3755	565	1891
22.	George Wade	.3725	603	1887
23.	Isaac Montgomery	.3718	608	1887
24.	Candy Lemmons	.3711	590	1887
25.	Jim Dean	.3693	667	1887
26.	Harry Ransom	.3679	523	1887
27.	Harry Ransom	.3665	595	1889
28.	Dasher Gilliam	.3647	637	1887
29.	Jim Cahoon	.3615	549	1887
30.	Karl Quinlan	.3608	516	1887
31.	Jack Cogburn	.3607	585	1887
32.	William Poole	.3600	555	1887
33.	Tom Ewart	.3594	606	1887
34.	Trey Duren	.3591	665	1887
35.	Jim Cahoon	.3582	524	1890
36.	Bob Myers	.3579	521	1887
	Dave Coates	.3579	509	1887
38.	Charlie Shanafelt	.3579	601	1889
39.	Marty Flika	.3578	543	1887
40.	Clement Sant	.3577	643	1891
41.	Marble Manning	.3576	507	1887
	Hick Rogers	.3576	535	1886
43.	Cornbread Collins	.3576	546	1887
44.	George Christian	.3571+	498	1887
45.	Peter Bruner	.3564	545	1889
46.	John Tennison	.3562	600	1887
47.	Buster Brown	.3561	507	1890
	Gary Vankirk	.3561	507	1887
49.	Frank Flowers	.3555	566	1887
50.	Jim Cahoon	.3553	596	1889
51.	Dave Morrison	.3547	622	1887
52.	Wilfred Barrett	.3545	534	1889
53.	Bradley Marshall	.3545	599	1887
54.	Garret Nevins	.3534	627	1886
55.	Travis Krupp	.3533+	498	1887
56.	Turkey Carver	.3527	582	1887
57.	Tommy Bernard	.3525	545	1887
58.	Brian Brownfield	.3519	590	1886
59.	Carpetbagger Jenkins	.3515	514	1888
60.	Candy Lemmons	.3513	583	1889
61.	Hans Schwaben	.3509	639	1887
62.	Norm Woods	.3508	592	1887
63.	Bunny Cook	.3508	595	1887
64.	Tom Ewart	.3497	527	1885
65.	Israel Thompson	.3495	570	1887
66.	Roy Kane	.3495	546	1887
67.	Buster Brown	.3487	542	1889
68.	Hick Rogers	.3465	578	1887
69.	Bulldog Ayers	.3457	719	1887
70.	Paddy McKeehan	.3445	533	1884
71.	Tommy Colquitt	.3430	562	1890
72.	Peter Bruner	.3426	511	1890
73.	Charlie Vanmeter	.3423	581	1887
74.	George Wade	.3422	618	1889
75.	Emerson Colbert	.3417	529	1887
76.	Charlie Shanafelt	.3408	589	1890
77.	Jim Kiefer	.3402	533	1887
78.	Jeffrey McMillen	.3399	561	1891
79.	Jasper Kent	.3397	575	1887
80.	Jackrabbit Hoppe	.3391	609	1887
81.	John McDevitt	.3390	612	1887
82.	John Heyward	.3389	599	1887
83.	Willis Gaylord	.3388	580	1887
84.	Jim Scott	.3386	579	1887
85.	Israel Thompson	.3377	580	1889
86.	George Christian	.3369+	497	1891
87.	Will Wessels	.3368	546	1889
88.	William Poole	.3364	603	1889
89.	Otto Bentz	.3362+	498	1885
90.	Garrett Huffman	.3354	533	1887
91.	Steve Monson	.3352	611	1887
92.	Dixie Russell	.3351	628	1891
93.	Turkey Carver	.3348	508	1884
94.	Charlie Nelson	.3347	513	1887
95.	Merritt Hunter	.3346	580	1887
96.	George Gunn	.3346	588	1887
97.	Carpetbagger Jenkins	.3340	506	1886
98.	Marty Flika	.3340	567	1889
	Hunter Snyder	.3340	545	1887
100.	Isaac Montgomery	.3340	597	1890

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