Mantle finished at .298, just about the same as Willie Mays (.302). That .302 sure sounds better and Mantle once said he wished he would have bunted a few more times for hits so his average would have been bumped up to .300.

Yes, Mickey Mantle did have a lifetime batting average.

Mantle's MLB batting average is .298

To compute his lifetime batting average, someone will have to gather stats from all of the pickup games, grammar school games, high school games ands the minor leagues and exhibition games Mantle played in - and then incorporate them with his MLB numbers. That could prove difficult.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/player...

Without looking it up I would have said .297. Looks like I was off by a point.

.298