Rank	Player	Avg.	Pos.	Team(s)	Years
1	Ty Cobb	.366	OF	Philadelphia (AL), Detroit (AL)	1905–28
2	Rogers Hornsby	.358	2B	St. Louis (NL), New York (NL), Boston (NL), Chicago (NL), St. Louis (NL), St. Louis (AL)	1915–37
3	Shoeless Joe Jackson	.356	OF	Philadelphia (AL), Cleveland (AL), Chicago (AL)	1908–20
4	Lefty O'Doul	.349	OF	New York (AL), Boston (AL), New York (NL), Philadelphia (NL), Brooklyn (NL)	1919–23, 1928–34
5	Ed Delahanty	.346	OF	Philadelphia (NL), Cleveland (PL), Philadelphia (NL), Washington (AL)	1888–1903
6	Tris Speaker	.345	OF	Boston (AL), Cleveland (AL), Washington (AL), Philadelphia (AL)	1907–28
7	Billy Hamilton	.344	OF	Kansas City (AA), Philadelphia (NL), Boston (NL)	1888–1901
8	Ted Williams	.344	OF	Boston (AL)	1939–42, 1946–60
9	Dan Brouthers	.342	1B	Troy (NL), Buffalo (NL), Detroit (NL), Boston (NL), Boston (PL), Brooklyn (NL), Baltimore (NL), Louisville (NL), Philadelphia (NL), New York (NL)	1879–96, 1904
10	Babe Ruth	.342	OF	Boston (AL), New York (AL), Boston (NL)	1914–35