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Originally Posted by George_Bell
Rogers Hornsby finishes the season with a .420 average!!! Unfortunately, he didn’t qualify for the batting title with only 460 plate appearance. I believe the rule is 3.1 appearances for every game the team plays. So, 3.1 X 154 is 477, so he misses out by 17 plate appearances!
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He still should have won the batting title, at least under modern rules.
Rule 10.22
(a) The individual batting, slugging or on-base percentage champion shall be the player with the highest batting average, slugging percentage or on-base percentage, as the case may be, provided the player is credited with as many or more total appearances at the plate in league championship games as the number of games scheduled for each club in his club’s league that season, multiplied by 3.1 in the case of a Major League player and by 2.7 in the case of a National Association player. Total appearances at the plate shall include official times at bat, plus bases on balls, times hit by pitcher, sacrifice hits, sacrifice flies and times awarded first base because of interference or obstruction. Notwithstanding the foregoing requirement of minimum appearances at the plate, any player with fewer than the required number of plate appearances whose average would be the highest, if he were charged with the required number of plate appearances shall be awarded the batting, slugging or on-base percentage championship, as the case may be.
Adding seventeen at-bats to Hornsby's average would give him a .403 average, easily beating Duncan's .364. I've raised this issue before, but obviously nothing has been done about it.