Babe Ruth Career Doubles Overview

During Babe Ruth's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 506 doubles, an average of 23 doubles per season. 1923 was his best season with 45 doubles and his worst season was 1935 when he had 0 doubles. Babe Ruth outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (101.081), The Lost Generation (89.366), Y (393.136), mlb (101.508), and RF (123.593) 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)

Babe Ruth Lifetime Doubles

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Babe Ruth Doubles By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Babe Ruth'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, 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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Babe Ruth Cumulative Doubles by Year

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Babe Ruth and related player groups by summarizing Doubles 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!
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Babe Ruth Doubles Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Babe Ruth 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, 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.
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