Who's not in the National Baseball Hall of Fame from the top twenty? Shoeless Joe Jackson, Pete Browning, Tony Gwynn, Todd Helton and Riggs Stephenson. Do they all belong? Share your opinion on our baseball message boards today.
Do you remember who hit the highest batting average during a single season? How about from the year you were born (click either link to find out)?
Prior to 2010 we only listed the top 100 and monitored those who made and slipped off the list. Here is that original fast fact preserved and now useless due to the list including 1000 names: Modern superstars are making the list as they meet the one-thousand minimum games played threshold: In 2001 Jeff Cirillo & Manny Ramirez met the requirements and joined the top one-hundred. In 2002 Cirillo slipped off the chart and Jason Giambi made it while Chipper Jones & Alex Rodriguez missed the cutoff by less than 2/1000 of a point. In 2003 Jason Giambi slipped off the chart, Chipper Jones just missed it once again (his career average is .30870), and Vladimir Guerrero vaulted onto the list at forty-first — higher than any other active player, that is until 2004 when Todd Helton launched into the top 20 all-time.