1990 Event NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with San Francisco Giants 1990 Event George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades 1989 Event Batting titles decided on final day Puckett goes 2-for-5 edges Carney Lansford .339 to .336, Gwynn's 3-for-4 edges Will Clark .336 to .333 1988 Event Lowest batting avg for NL champion (Tony Gwynn .313) 1984 Event New York Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg 1980 Event Kansas City Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400 1980 Event George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401 1976 Event East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Michigan State University after he is warned not to 1975 Event A's release pinch runner Herb Washington (played 104 games without batting, pitching, or fielding He stole 30 bases, and scored 33 runs) 1972 Event Indians set a team record for lowest team batting avg .234 1968 Event Carl Yastrzemski .3005 avg wins his 2nd straight batting crown 1960 Event NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP 1958 Event Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets 1956 Death Al Simmons, outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334, dies at 54 1955 Event Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ 1953 Birthday Agha Zahid, cricketer, open batting for Pak vs. WI 1975, scored 14 and 1 1951 Birthday Bill Madlock, 4X NL batting champ for the Chicago Cubs 1949 Event NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP 1945 Birthday Doug Walters, cricketer, Aussie batting genius 1965-81 Extrovert 1944 Birthday Graeme Pollock, cricketer, South African batting prodigy 1941 Event Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg 1941 Event Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time 1941 Event Ted Williams raises his batting avg over .400 for 1st time in 1941 1941 Event Lee MacPhail, Dodger General Manager predicts all players will wear batting helmets 1940 Birthday Tony Oliva, ball player, batting champ, AL Rookie of Year 1964 1940 Event Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps 1940 Birthday H R "Tiger" Lance, cricketer, South African batting all-rounder 1961-67 1938 Event NL batting champ Ernie Lombardi is named MVP 1937 Event AL batting champ Charlie Gehringer wins MVP 1931 Event Closest NL batting race ends Chick Hafey (.3488) beats Bill Terry's 1926 Birthday Edgar Meuli, cricketer, opened New Zealand batting in Test vs. South Africa 1953 1925 Event Harry Heilmann's 6 hits edges Ty Cobb .393 to .389 as batting champ 1925 Event After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice Miller Huggins suspends Ruth and slaps a $5,000 fine on him 1922 Birthday Carl Furillo, Brooklyn Dodger, NL Batting Champ 1953 1914 Birthday Dennis Dyer, cricketer, opened batting for South Africa vs. England 1947 1910 Event Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won 1910 Event Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ 1903 Event AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later 1902 Birthday Al Simmons, Milwaukee, outfielder, A's, lifetime batting avg of .334 1901 Birthday Eddie Paynter, cricketer, England batting hero in Bodyline series
