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Batting average

noun

(baseball) a measure of a batter's performance; the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat. Synonym: hitting average.

(an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds.

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"Batting average" Quotes from Famous Books

... is no more an accident than the ball player's batting average is a streak of luck. It is putting the right hits in the right place and keeping the ...

— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher

... Something is terribly wrong. Twenty-four pink cards in the last month. Twenty-four out of forty. That's a batting average of—He tried to figure it out with a pencil, but gave it up as a bad job. Maybe I'll run it through the Averagovac, he thought. But why bother? It's obvious that it's ...

— The Success Machine • Henry Slesar

... honesty than of legal obligation. If a man is straight, he'll keep it, if he's crooked, he'll break it. And you know what a hole it would leave in the Giant team if those three men went over the fence. There isn't a heavier slugger in the team than Burkett, except Larry. His batting average this year was .332, and as a fielding first baseman he's the class of ...

— Baseball Joe Around the World - Pitching on a Grand Tour • Lester Chadwick