Ty Cobb's career batting average is probably the most impressive and untouchable record in all of baseball. In his 24 year career Cobb compiled a career batting average of .367, he has the next closest player by nine point and the closest active player by thirty-five points.
This record is considered close to untouchable, because the top ten active players aren't even close to being in the running. These players include, Albert Pujols, Ichiro Suzuki, Todd Helton, Vladimir Guerrero, Derek Jeter, Nomar Garciaparra, Manny Ramirez, Magglio Ordonez, Chipper Jones and Alex Rodriguez, have combined to hit over that .367 mark in only 3 seasons. That just happens to be the number of seasons in which Ty Cobb hit over .400.
In fact the only player in the Top 20 in career batting average from the last 20 years in Tony Gwynn and his average only puts him at 15th best all time. Only surpassing the great Ty Cobb's life time average four times in his twenty year career.
Finally since 1988, only ten times has a player his over the .367 career mark of Ty Cobb. The fact that someone would have to do this for a sustained amount of time is becoming more and more unrealistic.
This being said, Cobb's mark is probably the most likely never to be broken, but it makes a high average that much more impressive and that much bigger of an accomplishment. For example, since it has been 66 years now since someone has hit .400, if anyone ever accomplishes that feat they will be respected as one of the great hitters of their era. And if a player every seriously approached Cobb's record or even the Top 10 in all-time average, they would be considered one of the great hitters not only of their generation but of all time.
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