Luke Appling has the highest one season batting average of .388 of any shortstop in baseball history, 1936, and he became the first American League shortstop to lead the league in batting. Appling also led the league in 1943 when he batted .328. In 1990 Luke Appling was voted the greatest Chicago White Sox player in history. Appling was picked for eight All-Star games. He was an excellent fielding shortstop and led the league in assists seven different times, and in putouts twice. Appling was noted for his great fielding range. Appling was the White Sox lead-off-hitter, three times he drew over 100 base-on-balls and his career OBP was .399. He played over 20 years and in 2422 games he struck-out only 528 times! Luke Appling batted over .300 in 15 different years including 9 straight seasons. In eight different years he scored over 90 runs. This famous Hall-of-Famer career stats are .310 batting average, stole 178 bases, walked 1302 times, 528 strikeouts, scored over 1300 runs.