Richie Ashburn Career Hits Overview

During Richie Ashburn's 15-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 2574 hits, an average of 172 hits per season. 1951 was his best season with 221 hits and his worst season was 1961 when he had 79 hits. Richie Ashburn outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (582.834), The Greatest Generation (562.578), Y (2274.55), mlb (581.433), and CF (667.898) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Base hits (H), 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)

Richie Ashburn Lifetime Hits and Similar Stats

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Richie Ashburn Hits By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Richie Ashburn'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, CF, 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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Richie Ashburn Cumulative Hits by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Richie Ashburn's career Hits progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Richie Ashburn's career Hits at the end of that season.
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Richie Ashburn Hits By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Richie Ashburn and related player groups by summarizing Hits for each season played by Richie Ashburn. 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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Richie Ashburn Hits Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Richie Ashburn 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, CF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Richie Ashburn 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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