Here's the top batting averages as of April 28, 2006: DETROIT TIGERS CAREER AT BATS >= 1000 AVERAGE AVG AB 1 Ty Cobb .368 10591 2 Harry Heilmann .342 7297 3 Bob Fothergill .337 2444 4 Dale Alexander .331 1761 5 George Kell .325 3303 6 Heinie Manush .321 2098 7 Charlie Gehringer .320 8860 8 Hank Greenberg .319 4791 9 Gee Walker .317 3046 10 Harvey Kuenn .314 4372 11 Mickey Cochrane .313 1072 12 Barney McCosky .312 2385 13 Bobby Veach .311 5982 14 Sam Crawford .309 7985 15 Al Wingo .309 1267 16 Johnny Bassler .308 2240 17 Jim Delahanty .306 1336 18 Ivan Rodriguez .305 1113 19 John Stone .304 2425 20 Harry Rice .303 1174 21 Pete Fox .302 3919 22 Goose Goslin .297 1957 23 Al Kaline .297 10116 24 Fred Haney .297 1370 25 Ron LeFlore .297 3266 26 Topper Rigney .296 1651 27 Lu Blue .295 3394 28 Dick Wakefield .293 2128 29 Johnny Groth .293 2266 30 Jimmy Barrett .292 2259 31 Ray Boone .291 2485 32 Kid Elberfeld .290 1052 33 Hoot Evers .290 2718 34 Marty McManus .287 2314 35 Roy Johnson .287 1918 36 Vic Wertz .286 2793 37 Alan Trammell .285 8288 38 Steve Kemp .284 2504 39 Doc Cramer .282 2720 40 Rudy York .282 4677 41 Dmitri Young .281 1653 42 Tony Phillips .281 2747 43 Mike Higgins .280 3134 44 Claude Rossman .280 1382 45 Don Kolloway .279 1335 46 Larry Herndon .278 2748 47 Doc Casey .278 1060 48 Marv Owen .278 2954 49 Rusty Staub .277 2100 50 Tony Clark .277 2831