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 National League batting title when he hit a major-league-best .366 for the Atlanta Braves, has died. He was 85. Major League Baseball, the players' association and the Braves paid tribute to Carty on social media Sunday.

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,