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Definitions: Batting Average |
Batting AverageNoun1. (baseball) the percentage of times a batter gets a hit; number of base hits divided by the number of times at bat. 2. (an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds; "the salesman's batting average was 7 out of 12". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Batting Average |
| English words defined with "batting average": triple-crown. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Major League Baseball batting average championship is awarded to the player in each league who has the highest batting average with at least 3.1 plate appearances per game that his team has played.
First devised by Henry Chadwick in the 19th century, batting average is a measure of a player's ability to hit. In modern times, a batting average over .300 is considered to be good, and an average over .400 a nearly unachievable goal. The last player to do so, with enough at bats to qualify for the batting championship, was Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, who hit .406 in 1941).
For non-pitchers, a batting average below .250 is poor, and one below .200 is totally unacceptable. This latter level is known as "The Mendoza Line", named for Mario Mendoza, a stellar defensive shortstop who hit .215 over his Major League career. The league batting average in Major League Baseball is currently (2001) in the range of .260 to 275.
Sabermetrics considers batting average a weak measure of performance because it does not correlate as well as other measures to runs scored. BA does not take into account walks or power.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Batting average."
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Screenplays | Well I hope you improve your batting average. (The Insider; writing credit: Eric Roth) | |
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Author Unknown | If your batting average is high enough, the Big League will find you. |
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| Language | Translations for "batting average"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | バッチ処理 (Bach, bad mark, bat, batch processing, batman, battery, batting, batting cage, batting center, batting order, batting practice pitcher, boat, buffalo, buffer, buffer stock, buffered, buffering, butting, having a time or schedule conflict, intruding on someone else's turf, vat), "率 , "'率 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | バッティングアベレージ , りつ, 'きりつ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | attingbay averageay averaj (average). (various references) | ||||||||||
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| Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-e-e-g-g-i-n-r-t-t-v" | |
-4 letters: brevetting, vegetarian, vegetating. | |
-5 letters: aggravate, argentite, averaging, battering, beavering, begetting, bereaving, bettering, breveting, gettering, gravitate, integrate, revetting, targeting, variegate, vignetter. | |
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HTML Code (1990) (references)B a t t i n g   A v e r a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0074 0074 0069 006E 0067 0041 0076 0065 0072 0061 0067 0065 |
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