Major League - highest average in season
- Who
- Josh Gibson
- Where
- United States
- When
- 1943
The highest batting average in a season is .466, achieved by Josh Gibson (USA) while playing in the Negro Leagues for the Homestead Grays in 1943.
On 28 May 2024, Major League Baseball announced that it had integrated Negro Leagues statistics into its records, supplanting the previous mark of .438 by Hugh Duffy (Boston NL) in 1894.