What happened to baseball’s .300 hitter?

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In all of baseball that year, only six hitters managed a batting average of .300 or higher, an all-time low. Now, nearly six decades later, what’s old is new again: A batting average crisis is back. Now in Major League Baseball, that famous benchmark – a batting average of .300 – has become an endangered species. A league-wide offensive slump led to record or near-record lows in all kinds of offensive statistics – batting average, runs, hits, you name it. His batting average of .301 is still the lowest ever to win a league batting title.