Talk:Hal Morris

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Removed the following, as it was factually incorrect: A lifetime .304 hitter, he currently holds the 5th highest rookie batting average in baseball history (.340).

Morris didn't qualify for the batting title in that season. Using the MLB rules, if the player lacks the plate appearances to qualify, you add that many hitless at bats to player if he should be in the running for the batting title. Hence, if someone hits .380 and misses qualifying by two plate appearances, he still wins the title if the next players hit .330.

Morris would have had an average of .220 in that year if you give him those plate appearances.

I'm not sure where the "5th" came from in any case. If you use the modern definition of rookie (no more than 130 career at bats), disqualify all players prior to 1901, and allow Morris to be the only player in history to qualify with as few as 336 PA, he is still #10.

Here is a list of all players who batted higher than Morris, lowering the qualifying requirements to 300 PA:

Cnt Player             BA   PA Year Age ++-+-+---++---+   1 Joe Jackson        .408 641 1911  21 2 Pete Browning     .378 314 1882  21 3 George Watkins    .373 424 1930  30 4 Benny Kauff       .370 667 1914  24 5 Bill Everitt      .358 596 1895  26 6 Lloyd Waner       .355 683 1927  21 7 Jimmy Williams    .355 689 1899  22 8 Dave Orr          .354 464 1884  24 9 Chick Stahl       .354 515 1897  24 10 Fielder Jones     .354 451 1896  24 11 Kiki Cuyler       .354 515 1924  25 12 Ginger Beaumont   .352 489 1899  22 13 Dan Gladden       .351 384 1984  26 14 Tom McCreery      .351 493 1896  21 15 Ichiro Suzuki     .350 738 2001  27 16 Cuckoo Christense .350 385 1926  26 17 Wade Boggs        .349 381 1982  24 18 Cupid Childs      .345 571 1890  22 19 Jeff Heath        .343 538 1938  23 20 Dale Alexander    .343 700 1929  26 21 Gene DeMontrevill .343 581 1896  23 22 Patsy Dougherty   .342 489 1902  25 23 Earle Combs       .342 673 1925  26 24 Buster Hoover     .341 333 1884  21 25 John O'Rourke     .341 325 1879  29 26 Hal Morris        .340 336 1990  25 BMW (talk) 23:56, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

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