Some Astounding Baseball Statistics

Ty Cobb

His lifetime batting average of .367 is awesome. It is downright baffling. Year after year of hitting over .300. His first year was the only year he hit less than .300 Nine years batting .380 or higher. Including and after age 40 he batted .343 When he finished the year he turned 22 he had 765 hits

Lou Gehrig

Knocking in over 150 runs in a year seven times.

Rogers Hornsby

Hitting over .400 for a five year period. From 1921 to 1925 he hit .401 He even batted .424 in 1924

Cy Young

Winning 511 games or Losing 316 times or having 815 complete games. Or pitching 7354 innings in his career. Imagine if he had a reliable bull pen.

Barry Bonds

232 walks in 2002 with 120 of them being intentional base on balls. Maybe the opposition was nervous about pitching to him. He also has 604 lifetime intentional walks. Hank Aaron is number two with 293 intentional walks.

Hank Aaron

755 home runs in his career He never hit 50 in a season. 6856 total bases Stan Musial is number two with 6134 total bases 1477 extra base hits - # one rank This is 100 more extra base hits than # 2