Topic summary
Batting titles
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Batting average (baseball).
Qualifications for the batting title
The MLB batting averages championships (often referred to as "the batting title") are awarded annually to the player in each league with the highest batting average. Ty Cobb holds the MLB and American League (AL) record for most batting titles, officially winning 11 in his career. The National League (NL) record of eight batting titles is shared by Honus Wagner and Tony Gwynn. Most of Cobb's career and all of Wagner's career occurred during the dead-ball era, which was characterized by higher batting averages by star players (although the overall league batting average was historically at its lowest during that era) and much less power, whereas Gwynn's career took place in the live-ball era.