Babe Ruth Career Singles Overview
During Babe Ruth's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of
1517 singles, an average of 69 singles per season. 1931 was his best season
with 119 singles and his worst season was 1914 when he had
1 singles. Babe Ruth is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or
being beat by USA (413.196), The Lost Generation (417.206), mlb (410.978), RF (473.367), and Y (1569.47) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that
visualize this information in more detail.
Singles are hits where the player only reaches first base in a single play without the benefit of a fielding error or feilders choice. If they pass first base safely and it was because of a fielding error it's still considered only a single. Generally, for Singles, higher is better. (
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Babe Ruth Lifetime Singles
Stats similar to Singles for Babe Ruth
| Babe RuthSingles |
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Career | 1517 |
Season Avg. | 69 |
162 Game Avg. | 98 |
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Babe Ruth Singles By Year Line Chart
This line chart shows Babe Ruth's yearly Singles
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.
Babe Ruth Cumulative Singles by Year
This line chart attempts to show show how Babe Ruth's career Singles progressed by year.
Each year on the chart represents Babe Ruth's career Singles at the end of that season.
Babe Ruth Singles By Year Box Chart
This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Babe Ruth and related player groups by summarizing Singles
for each season played by Babe Ruth. 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!
Babe Ruth Singles Per Season Stats Table
This table shows Babe Ruth Singles 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 Babe Ruth 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.