how many players have batted .400 or over through the all-star break?

The answer is at least two.

Looks like Trapazoid beat me to it on this note;

Rod Carew was batting .402 at the All-Star Break in 1983. As far as I can tell, he is the only player with enough at bats to qualify at the time of the game to have an anverage over .400 since at least the 1950s.

Ted Williams was batting .405 at the 1941 Mid-Summer Classic, when he hit his dramatic game-winning homer.

Interesting side note - only 2 of the top 54 single-season averages occured in the All-Star Game era, since 1933.

Some possiblities might include Luke Appling in 1936, Arky Vaughn in 1935, Joe DiMaggio, 1939, and Stan Musial in 1948. They all hit over .375 for the full season in All-Star years, but I couldn't find their averages at the break.

Here, I'll just run a list of high AVGs at the All-Star break since 1956 (deeper data not readily available)... of course, since there has only been ONE full-season qualifying .400+ AVG since the All-Star Game was founded in 1933, there aren't many of those to worry about.

Williams 1957 -- .343 (finished .388)

Carew 1977 -- .394 (finished .388)

Brett 1980 -- .337 (last played on 10-June; ASG on 08-July; activated 10-July; finished .390; last saw .400 on 19-Sept)

Boggs 1983 -- .356 (finished .361)

Boggs 1985 -- .342 (finished .368)

Boggs 1986 -- .363 (finished .357)

Boggs 1987 -- .375 (finished .363)

Boggs 1988 -- .355 (finished .366)

Gwynn 1987 -- .370 (finished .370)

Gwynn 1994 -- .383 (finished .394, short season)

Gwynn 1995 -- .364 (finished .368, short season)

Edgar Martinez 1995 -- .363 (finished .356, short season)

Galarraga 1993 -- .391 (finished .370)

Garciaparra 1999 -- .366 (finished .357)

Garciaparra 2000 -- .389 (finished .372)

Helton 2000 -- .383 (finished .372)

Walker 1997 -- .398 (finished .366)

Walker 1998 -- .331 (finished .363)

Walker 1999 -- .382 (finished .379)

Ichiro 2004 -- .321 (finished .372)

Bonds 2002 -- .345 (finished .370)

Bonds 2004 -- .365 (finished .362)

Walker, Carew, and Galarraga were nearest .400, in that order, entering the All-Star break (among those I checked; this isn't comprehensive, just picking some batting champions based on their final averages).

So I don't really know who was the last to hold a .400 qualifying average at the break.

Walker cracked .400 in his first game after the ASG in 1997.

Tough to say, I think there have been quite a few that have done it. Gwynn in '94, Brett in '80, etc... Hitting .400 at the all-star break is impressive but we'll never see a batter maintain it through an entire season again. Pitchers and teams make too many adjustments for each hitter than they did in the 1800's.

I found only one. Rod Carew was batting .402 at the all star break in 1983.

Also, some other players with nice averages at break were (just adding to Chipmaker's nice answer)

John Olerud batting .395 at the break in 1993.

Tony Gwynn batting .394 in 1997.

Paul O'Neill batting .382 in 1994.

Tony Fernandez batting .372 in 1999.

Last Person To Hit 400

Garciaparra did it back in 2000

he might have been last one! not many, except maybe rod carew, geroge brett and ted williams!!

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