Sporcle Saturday: .300 hitters

Tim Anderson painting
Tim Anderson (Carl Skanberg)

Entering Friday night’s game against the Mariners, Tim Anderson led all American league hitters in batting average at .333. With DJ LeMahieu sitting at .325, Tim stands a good chance of leading the league in batting average should he qualify in plate appearances, as Jim outlined on Tuesday. Heck, Anthony Rendon sits at .335, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that he could lead the majors by season’s end.

Today, we’ll be examining other White Sox hitters who have hit at least .300 in a full season. As one might expect, there are a lot of oldy-timey guys on the list, but there are plenty of newer guys, too. In total, there have been 165 player seasons: how many can you name? Good luck!

Quiz Parameters

  • A player must qualify for the batting title to make the list.
  • This is a big list, so I’ve allotted 15 minutes for completion attempts.
  • For hints, I’ve provided the year and the batting average.

Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:

  • If Tim Anderson finishes the season at .330 or above, he’d be just the 15th unique player in franchise history to do that.
  • Continuing the .330 theme, the Sox had a 54-year gap between .330 hitters (1940 and 1994).
  • The average triple-slash of the players on this list: .317/.388/.462.

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All data from baseballreference.com


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VaChisox

113/165. Missed four from my lifetime. One from 2014, 1998, 1981, and 1969

asinwreck

127/165 before I ran out of time. This is way trickier than the HR list because of quite a few empty averages. I feel proud to have gotten brothers-in-mediocrity

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Bill Almon and Mike Caruso
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KenWo4LiFe

121/165. Should’ve gotten others from the 30s. Got all in my life and all but one in my dads life 

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kell
so I’m fairly happy. 

KenWo4LiFe

Boomer w 111. Chalk another one up for the bad guy in dominating fashion. 

roke1960

127/165. Got everyone after 1950. I’m getting better at the guys in the 30s thanks to these quizzes, but missed a few I should have gotten.

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Johnny Dickshot

Josh Nelson

Love the name.

Trooper Galactus

77/165, and two of those I got while thinking of an entirely different player. Only missed two from the 90s and got everything from 99-present, but the old-timers continue to kill me in these.