Dominican baseball star Rico Carty, who led the National League with a .366 average in 1970, died Saturday in Atlanta.

Rico Carty, who won the 1970 NL batting title when he hit a major league-best .366 for the Atlanta Braves, has died. He was 85.

Rico Carty was popular enough to be elected to start an All-Star Game as a write-in candidate. Memories of Carty’s 1970 All-Star election and the batting title he won that same year were rekindled on Sunday,