Lou Gehrig Career Doubles Overview

During Lou Gehrig's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 534 doubles, an average of 31 doubles per season. 1927 was his best season with 52 doubles and his worst season was 1939 when he had 0 doubles. Lou Gehrig outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (101.081), The Greatest Generation (96.2541), Y (393.136), mlb (101.508), and 1B (134.143) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Doubles (2B) are hits where the player reaches second base safely in a single play without the benefit of an error or feilders choice. If they pass second base safely and it was because of a fielding error it's still considered only a double. Generally, for Doubles, higher is better. (Source)

Lou Gehrig Lifetime Doubles

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Lou Gehrig
Doubles
Career534
Season Avg.31
162 Game Avg.40
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Lou Gehrig Doubles By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Lou Gehrig's yearly Doubles for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, 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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Lou Gehrig Cumulative Doubles by Year

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Lou Gehrig and related player groups by summarizing Doubles for each season played by Lou Gehrig. 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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Lou Gehrig Doubles Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Lou Gehrig Doubles 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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Lou Gehrig 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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