Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers became the youngest baseball player to win the league batting title.
In 1955 Al Kaline, who had signed with the Tigers the day after graduating from high school two years earlier, became the youngest player to win the league batting title. Kaline played with the Tigers for twenty-two seasons. Having hit 399 home runs, he finished his career with a .297 batting average. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980.
Source : Michigan Historical Calendar, courtesy of the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University.