Top 25 Batting Average in 1902 in the American League

Batting Average : 1902 American League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)

1902 Batting Average Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Batting Average Team Rank

Ed Delahanty .376 (.37632) Washington Senators 1

Charlie Hickman .361 (.36142) Boston Americans 2

Cleveland Blues

Patsy Dougherty .342 (.34247) Boston Americans 3

Lave Cross .342 (.34168) Philadelphia Athletics 4

Bill Bradley .340 (.34000) Cleveland Blues 5

Chick Stahl .323 (.32283) Boston Americans 6

Jimmy Collins .322 (.32168) Boston Americans 7

Fielder Jones .321 (.32143) Chicago White Stockings 8

Jimmy Ryan .320 (.32025) Washington Senators 9

Kip Selbach .320 (.32008) Baltimore Orioles 10

Socks Seybold .316 (.31609) Philadelphia Athletics 11

Scoops Carey .314 (.31416) Washington Senators 12

Jimmy Williams .313 (.31325) Baltimore Orioles 13

Danny Green .312 (.31185) Chicago White Stockings 14

Buck Freeman .309 (.30851) Boston Americans 15

Charlie Hemphill .308 (.30784) Cleveland Blues 16

St. Louis Browns

Harry Davis .307 (.30660) Philadelphia Athletics 17

Jesse Burkett .306 (.30561) St. Louis Browns 18

Jimmy Barrett .303 (.30255) Detroit Tigers 19

Dave Fultz .302 (.30237) Philadelphia Athletics 20

Bill Coughlin .301 (.30064) Washington Senators 21

Bill Keister .300 (.30021) Washington Senators 22

George Davis .299 (.29897) Chicago White Stockings 23

Elmer Flick .297 (.29718) Philadelphia Athletics 24

Cleveland Blues

Sammy Strang .295 (.29478) Chicago White Stockings 25

Name Batting Average Team Rank

Future Hall of Famer Sammy Sosa is best known for wearing number twenty-one; however, when the young slugger played for the Chicago White Sox (1989-1991) he only wore number twenty-five.

Did you know that more than forty players have worn the number twenty-five for the Boston Red Sox � including Jack Clark, Denny Galehouse, Dizzy Trout and Tony Conigliaro.

The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

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