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Rogers Hornsby of the St. Louis Cardinals had the highest season batting average in modern baseball history. In 1942, Hornsby hit a remarkable .424.

The word fraction comes from the Latin word frangere meaning, "to break."

The ancient Egyptians primarily used fractions whose numerators were 1.

Batting averages are typically spoken as whole numbers but are actually decimals.

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