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Posted By: identify7

The greatest hitters, pitchers and sluggers in baseball history are identified by their stats.

The .600 club identifies the top sluggers:

Ruth .690
Williams .634
Gehrig .632
Foxx .609
Greenberg .605

The 350 club identifies the rest:

Young 511
Johnson 417
Alexander 373
Mathewson 373
Cobb .366
Galvin 364
Spahn 363
Nichols 361
Hornsby .359
Jackson .356

Edited to add: In the "what if" dept.

If Keeler did not play after his seventh season, he would have retired with a .379 lifetime BA. Similarly, if Heilman did not play his first six seasons he would have retired with a higher lifetime batting average than Cobb.

Edited again to neaten up some sloppiness. One must keep his posts tidy.