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This story, by Hall of Famer writer Dan Daniel, first appeared in the Nov. 20, 1941, Avery Bradley Jersey i sue of The Sporting News, shortly after Boston icon Ted Williams, at 22, batted .406 for the Red Sox. Under the headline "Nearly Too Good To Be True Some Famous Few In Fabulous .400s," Daniel chronicled the players who had hit .400 and speculated about who might be the next to do accomplish the feat. Its been 81 years, and were still waiting. IN ACHIEVING the major league batting championship of 1941 with an average of .406, Theodore Samuel Williams of the Boston Red Sox and San Diego, Calif., turned in a cla sic performance, which had not been matched in his circuit since 1923, when Harry Heilmann of the Tigers hit .403, and in the Big Time since 1930, when Bill Terry reached the .401 level for the Giants.To hit .400 is the ambition of every major leaguer who owns any pretensions to outstanding skill. Confront a star with this question: "Which of the three power titles would you rather have the runs driven in, the homers, or the batting laurels at .400?" and he would reply, without hesitation, that he would choose the distinction which today belongs to Williams.At first blush, hitting .400 seems unattainable. When you consider how Blake Griffin Jersey severe is the task for the majority of major league hitters in striving for the .300 mark, you appreciate that .400 is something to attain only after an arduous climb to the Matterhorn peak if a player has power, physique, fortitude, luck, stick-to-itivene s, proper environment, and gamene s. And he must get the breaks. Investigation proves that while .400 is fabulous, that average really has been accomplished no fewer than 30 times in the major leagues as we know them today. If you wish to include the old American A sociation, which was the National League's running mate in the days when grandpa was a boy, the total is 41. The trick was accomplished 11 times in that loop of the eighties.National League Has Seen Figure Reached 21 TimesIN THE National League, from Ro s Barnes in the circuit's first season of 1876, to Terry in 1939, the .400 level has been gained 21 times. Williams is only the ninth hitter to make that figure in the American League the ninth .400 entry and the sixth individual. For Ty Cobb accomplished the feat thrice, and George Sisler twice.Yes, we DID say thrice! Tyrus, the Georgia Peach, started on his little series of charges among the Four Hundred in 1911, with a neat .420. In 1912, he suffered a terrific slump, and hit a measly .410. Ten seasons rolled along, and in 1922, the now-no-longer callow and youthful, but yet fiery, Ty came through with .401.That third entry among the Four Hundred always gets a rise out of John Kieran, who, in 1922, was the official scorer for the Yankees, and who now is the eminent sports columnist of the New York Times, and walking encyclopedia and poetry rememberer of "Information, Please" radio feature.After Wesley Johnson Jersey the 1922 season had closed one of Kieran's scores came in for a second scrutiny by Ban Johnson, president of the American League, who had been informed that John had neglected to score a hit for Cobb and had given someone on the New York club an error, instead. The day was rainy, Kieran had left the unprotected Polo Grounds pre s box and had gone on hearsay, Johnson said.By making it a hit, Johnson landed Cobb among the .400 a third time. Kieran protested. He carried his case into the meeting of the Baseball Writers' A sociation. But, as he still shouts, there was political skullduggery afoot, and Kieran failed to get the A sociation's vote of confidence.Burkett, Cobb, Hornsby Three-Time RepeatersIN BATTING .400 three seasons, Cobb did what only one major leaguer before him had achieved, and what only one since 1922 has accomplished. Je s Burkett hit .423 in 1895 for Cleveland in the National League. He hit .410 the next season, and in 1899, for St. Louis, he batted .402.Rogers Hornsby, later Cardinal hero, was the third slugger to gain the triple Four Hundred distinction. He reached that figure first in 1922, with .401. Note, please, that the 22 season produced no Montrezl Harrell Jersey fewer than three .400 hitters Hornsby, George Sisler of the Browns, who won the American League title with .420, and the .401 Cobb. That year perhaps marked the height of the lively era of the jackrabbit ball. But, in justice to Rog, George and Ty, it also marked the high level of batting achievement in the majors by three types whom the big circuits never again may see in action in one season.Hornsby broke into the Four Hundred a second time in 1924, with an incredible .424, and in 1925, he hit .403.It should interest Williams and his rivals in the American League that every one of the three hitters who accomplished the .400 average thrice had two succe sive seasons in which they attained that mark Burkett in 1895 and 1896, Cobb in 1911 and 1912, and Hornsby in 1924 and 1925.Four batters arrived among the Four Hundred aristocracy twice Cap Anson, with the old Chicago Nationals, .407 in 1879 and .421 in 1881; Ed Delahanty of the Phillies, .400 in 1894 and .408 in 1899; Sisler with the Browns, .407 in 1920 and .420 in 1922; Harry Stovey, Athletics in the A sociation, .404 in 1884 and .402 in 1887, and Sam Thompson, for Detroit in the National League, .406 in 1887 and .403 in 1894.You will note that while those who thrice batted .400 or better were able to hit the target twice in succe sion, those who achieved the feat just twice could not repeat in straight years.It is sweet satisfaction to hit .400. It is a noble distinction to win a major league title with any average, but Kawhi Leonard Jersey thrice noble to scale the .400 heights for the championship. But how would you like to fight into the .400 cla s and then discover, to your chagrin and dismay, that you were beaten for the league laurels?This strange yes, it could be harrowing experience befell a player for the first time in 1887, with good old Dan Brouthers of Detroit as the victim, and it was to happen again to Sam Thompson and Ed Delahanty in 1894, Fred Clarke in 1897, Je s Burkett in 1899, to Joe Jackson when he was with Cleveland in 1911, and to Ty Cobb in 1922.Talk about Pete Reiser of the Dodgers winning the National League batting championship as a rookie this year how about Jackson hitting Landry Shamet Jersey .408 In his first season in the American League? Joe came up with the Indians late in 1910 and played only 20 games with them. But in 1911 the South Carolinian gave Cobb all kinds of trouble, hitting only a dozen points behind Ty's .420.Cobb now admits that it was not his bat, not his speed, not his eye, which beat Jackson for the 1911 championship. Jackson was a raw, uncouth, uneducated lad of 23. Cobb was a glib, slick, smart bird with a ready tongue, a quick wit.Ty saw he had more than a worthy rival in Shoele s Joe from the seething metropolis of Brandon Mill, S.C. Cobb recognized that in Jackson the Indians had a batting genius. So Tyru