Of all the Major League Baseball players whose career took place after World War II, Wade Boggs currently owns the highest lifetime batting average (.328 or .3278) of any living player with at least 1,000 at-bats and 1,000 games.
Boggs, Hall of Fame Class of 2005, beats fellow Cooperstown inductee Rod Carew in this category by about the width of a stitch on a baseball (.3277).
Boggs first appeared in the big leagues in 1982 with the Boston Red Sox, hitting .349 in just over a hundred games and placing third in American League Rookie of the Year voting. The next season he won the first of his five AL batting titles, hitting .361 and handily thwarting Carew’s second-place average of .339.
At last summer’s Chantilly, Va. sports memorabilia show Boggs
