who had the highest lifetime batting average

Bob Addy batted .279 in his career.

	NAME	AVG	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	HBP	SO	SB	PA	TB	XBH	SH	OBP	SLG	OPS	WRC	WRAA	WOBA	WRC+	BRAA
1	Bob Addy B. Addy	.279	89	387	63	108	6	4	0		11				398	122	10			.315		59	0.7	.287	100	0
2	Art Allison A. Allison	.208	31	130	9	27	2	1	0	10	2		6		132	31	3			.238		13	-6.4	.214	57	-8.7
3	Doug Allison D. Allison	.232	94	362	44	84	8	0	0		7				369	92	8			.254		40	-13.3	.235	75	-14.1
4	Fred Andrus F. Andrus	.293	9	41	9	12	3	0	0		1				42	15	3			.366		7	1.1	.312	111	0.7
5	Cap Anson C. Anson	.331	2,277	9,104	1,722	3,012	529	124	97	1,306	953	32	146	247	10,123	4,080	750	34	.396	.448	.844	2154	654.1	.397	134	525.3
6	Ross Barnes R. Barnes	.319	234	1,032	239	329	45	17	2		59				1,091	414	64			.401		213	58.2	.349	133	54.1
7	Joe Battin J. Battin	.218	360	1,435	153	313	34	21	3	13	37	0		8	1,473	398	58		.238	.277	.516	161	-56.9	.238	77	-50
8	George Bechtel G. Bechtel	.200	16	65	4	13	1	0	0	2	0		1		65	14	1			.215		6	-4.2	.193	48	-5.1
9	John Bergh J. Bergh	.182	12	44	2	8	3	0	0		2				46	11	3			.250		4	-1.8	.216	71	-1.8
10	Oscar Bielaski O. Bielaski	.209	32	139	24	29	3	0	0	10	2		3		141	32	3			.230		14	-7.2	.211	61	-8.3
11	Joe Blong J. Blong	.226	120	482	47	109	15	7	0		6				488	138	22			.286		56	-16.1	.240	84	-12.1
12	Tommy Bond T. Bond	.236	361	1,441	156	340	32	7	0		21				1,462	386	39		.247	.268	.515	161	-43.2	.238	77	-47.1
13	Amos Booth A. Booth	.224	110	438	47	98	5	1	0		21				459	105	6			.240		53	-15.1	.239	81	-13.2
14	Eddie Booth E. Booth	.215	57	228	17	49	2	1	0	7	2		4		230	53	3			.232		23	-11.5	.213	69	-11
15	Joe Borden J. Borden	.207	32	121	19	25	3	0	0	7	3		3		124	28	3			.231		13	-5.9	.216	68	-5.9
16	Foghorn Bradley F. Bradley	.232	22	82	12	19	2	1	0	8	2		3		84	23	3			.280		11	-1.9	.247	84	-2
17	George Bradley G. Bradley	.228	507	2,004	244	456	57	35	3	1	39	0		2	2,043	592	95		.242	.295	.538	235	-54.9	.245	80	-57.6
18	Lew Brown L. Brown	.248	378	1,531	205	379	83	31	10		45				1,576	554	124			.362		231	6.1	.286	103	6.2
19	Jack Burdock J. Burdock	.244	960	3,873	578	944	131	40	15	74	128	10	1	32	4,011	1,200	186		.270	.310	.580	519	-51.1	.268	88	-66
20	Doc Bushong D. Bushong	.214	671	2,392	287	511	58	12	2	109	124	4		39	2,522	599	72		.254	.250	.505	257	-103.8	.241	66	-128.1
21	John Carbine J. Carbine	.160	7	25	3	4	0	0	0	1	0		0		25	4	0			.160		1	-2.5	.150	24	-2.9
22	Tom Carey T. Carey	.250	269	1,151	152	288	34	6	1		8				1,159	337	41			.293		142	-23.2	.252	86	-23.8
23	John Cassidy J. Cassidy	.252	587	2,454	336	618	83	31	4	28	84				2,543	775	118		.278	.316	.594	342	-14.5	.274	92	-28.7
24	Jack Chapman J. Chapman	.239	17	67	4	16	1	0	0	5	1		3		68	17	1			.254		8	-2.1	.237	68	-3.3
25	Bobby Clack B. Clack	.161	32	118	10	19	0	1	0	5	5		12		123	21	1			.178		9	-9.2	.181	54	-8.5