Batting Average : 1904 American League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"I don't think I stayed for a complete game that first year (in Arizona). But something happened. During the second year, I started watching more intently, listening to the broadcasters talk about strategy. I started getting it. Suddenly, a 162-game season didn't seem ridiculously long anymore." - Richard Ruelas in The Arizona Republic (11-07-2001)
 

1904 Batting Average Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Nap Lajoie .376 (.37613) Cleveland Blues 1
Willie Keeler .343 (.34254) New York Highlanders 2
Elmer Flick .306 (.30570) Cleveland Blues 3
Bill Bradley .300 (.30049) Cleveland Blues 4
Socks Seybold .292 (.29216) Philadelphia Athletics 5
Freddy Parent .291 (.29103) Boston Americans 6
Lave Cross .290 (.28995) Philadelphia Athletics 7
Chick Stahl .290 (.28961) Boston Americans 8
Danny Murphy .287 (.28725) Philadelphia Athletics 9
Patsy Dougherty .280 (.27975) Boston Americans 10
New York Highlanders  
Buck Freeman .280 (.27973) Boston Americans 11
John Anderson .278 (.27778) New York Highlanders 12
Bobby Wallace .275 (.27542) St. Louis Browns 13
Charlie Hickman .274 (.27443) Cleveland Blues 14
Detroit Tigers  
Emmet Heidrick .273 (.27323) St. Louis Browns 15
Jesse Burkett .271 (.27130) St. Louis Browns 16
Jimmy Collins .271 (.27100) Boston Americans 17
Jimmy Barrett .268 (.26763) Detroit Tigers 18
Danny Green .265 (.26493) Chicago White Sox 19
Kip Selbach .264 (.26354) Washington Senators 20
Boston Americans  
Jimmy Williams .263 (.26297) New York Highlanders 21
Kid Elberfeld .263 (.26292) New York Highlanders 22
Jake Stahl .262 (.26154) Washington Senators 23
Nixey Callahan .261 (.26141) Chicago White Sox 24
John Ganzel .260 (.26022) New York Highlanders 25



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.