{"id":15539,"date":"2012-11-09T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T08:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=15539"},"modified":"2012-11-08T20:35:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T04:35:50","slug":"the-lowest-batting-average-to-win-a-batting-title-in-the-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/the-lowest-batting-average-to-win-a-batting-title-in-the-mlb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lowest Batting Average to Win A Batting Title In the MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?attachment_id=15540\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15540\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15540\" title=\"TIFO Quick Fact - Lowest batting average to win a title\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Lowest-batting-average-to-win-a-title.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Lowest-batting-average-to-win-a-title.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Lowest-batting-average-to-win-a-title-340x233.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Text Version:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nIn 1968, also known to baseball fans as &#8220;Year Of The Pitcher&#8221;, Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Redsox, won the batting title with a .301 average. He was the only player that year to have a batting average over .300. To this day, it&#8217;s still the lowest batting average to ever win a batting title in Major League Baseball. On the flip side of that, Ty Cobb holds the record for the highest batting average over a three year span. He averaged .408 from 1911 to 1913.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text Version: In 1968, also known to baseball fans as &#8220;Year Of The Pitcher&#8221;, Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Redsox, won the batting title with a .301 average. He was the only player that year to have a batting average over .300. To this day, it&#8217;s still the lowest batting average to ever win a batting title in Major League [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2711,756],"class_list":["post-15539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-random-facts","tag-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15551,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539\/revisions\/15551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}