Hank Aaron's Hits Overview

During Hank Aaron's 23-year Major League Baseball career, he had 3771 hits, an average of 164 hits per season. 1959 was his best season with 223 hits and his worst season was 1976 when he had 62 hits. Hank Aaron outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (582.834), The Silent Generation (627.975), Y (2274.55), mlb (581.433), and RF (697.013) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Base hits, commonly referred to as hits, is credited to a player when they reach or pass first without the benifit of a feilding error or fielders choice during an at bat. Generally, for Hits, higher is better. (Source)

Hank Aaron's Hits Per Season Line Chart

This line chart shows Hank Aaron's yearly Hits for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RF, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
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Hank Aaron's Cumulative Hits by Season

This line chart attempts to show shows Hank Aaron's progression over their entire career. Each year on the chart represents Hank Aaron's career total Hits at the end of that season.
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Hank Aaron's Hits Per Season Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Hank Aaron and related player groups by summarizing Hits for each season played by Hank Aaron. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!
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Hank Aaron's Season Hits Stats Table

This table shows Hank Aaron's Hits stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Hank Aaron's career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.
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