Question: Who had the lowest batting average in the league where the team with the most games in the series after which the MLB MVP is awarded played?

The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. They are one of two major league clubs based in New York City; the other club is the National League (NL)'s New York Mets. In the season, the club began play in the AL as the Baltimore Orioles (no relation to the modern Baltimore Orioles). Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchased the franchise that had ceased operations and moved it to New York City, renaming the club the New York Highlanders. The Highlanders were officially renamed the Yankees in . <SEP> In the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals have appeared in 19 and won 11, the New York / San Francisco Giants have played in 20 and won 8, the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers have appeared in 19 and won 6, and the Cincinnati Reds have appeared in 9 and won 5. In the American League, the New York Yankees have played in 40 World Series and won 27, the Philadelphia / Kansas City / Oakland Athletics have played in 14 and won 9, and the Boston Red Sox have played in 12 and won 8, including the first World Series. <SEP> The BBWAA began by polling three writers in each league city in 1938, reducing that number to two per league city in 1961. The BBWAA does not offer a clear - cut definition of what ``most valuable ''means, instead leaving the judgment to the individual voters. MVP voting takes place before the postseason, but the results are not announced until after the World Series. <SEP> Ty Cobb holds the record for highest career batting average with. 366, 9 points higher than Rogers Hornsby who has the second highest average in history at. 358. 170 average in 3,028 career at - bats. The modern - era record for highest batting average for a season is held by Napoleon Lajoie, who hit. 426 in 1901, the first year of play for the American League. The modern - era record for lowest batting average for a player that qualified for the batting title is held by Rob Deer, who hit. 179 in 1991. While finishing six plate appearances short of qualifying for the batting title, Adam Dunn of the Chicago White Sox hit. 159 for the 2011 season, twenty points (and 11.2%) lower than the record. The highest batting average for a rookie was. The record for lowest career batting average for a player with more than 2,500 at - bats belongs to Bill Bergen, a catcher who played from 1901 to 1911 and recorded a. 408 in 1911 by Shoeless Joe Jackson. <SEP> as of 2018, nl players have won the award 27 times (including one award shared by two players), and american league (al) players have won 30 times. baltimore orioles players have won the most awards for a single franchise (with six); players from the cincinnati reds, los angeles dodgers and san francisco giants are tied for the most in the nl with five each. five players have won the award twice: willie mays (1963, 1968), steve garvey (1974, 1978), gary carter (1981, 1984), cal ripken, jr. (1991, 2001), and mike trout (2014, 2015). the award has been shared by multiple players once; bill madlock and jon matlack shared the award in 1975. two players have won the award for a game in which their league lost: brooks robinson in 1966 and carl yastrzemski in 1970. one pair of awardees were father and son (ken griffey sr. and ken griffey jr.), and another were brothers (roberto alomar and sandy alomar, jr.). mike trout of the los angeles angels of anaheim became the first player ever to win the mvp award in back - to - back years in the 86 - year history of the mlb all - star game when he accomplished the feat in both 2014 and 2015. alex bregman of the houston astros is the most recent mlb all - star game mvp, winning the award in 2018. only six players have won the mvp award in the only all - star game in which they appeared; lamarr hoyt, bo jackson, j.d. drew, melky cabrera, eric hosmer, and alex bregman. <SEP> lawrence joseph doyle (july 31, 1886 – march 1, 1974), nicknamed "laughing larry", was an american second baseman in major league baseball from 1907 to 1920 who played almost his entire career for the new york giants. the national league's outstanding second baseman during the 1910s, he was awarded the chalmers award as the league's best player, and won the batting title with a .320 average. the team captain and top everyday star on three consecutive pennant winners (1911–13), his .408 career slugging average was the top mark by an nl second baseman when he retired, as were his career totals in hits (1887), doubles (299), triples (123), total bases (2654) and extra base hits (496). he ended his career among the major league leaders in career games (5th, 1730), putouts (9th, 3635), assists (9th, 4654), total chances (9th, 8732) and double plays (5th, 694) at second base, and set giants franchise records for career games, at bats and doubles, each of which was broken by bill terry.