Top 25 Batting Average in 1907 in the American League

Batting Average : 1907 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)

1907 Batting Average Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Batting Average Team Rank

Ty Cobb .350 (.35041) Detroit Tigers 1

Sam Crawford .323 (.32302) Detroit Tigers 2

George Stone .320 (.32047) St. Louis Browns 3

Elmer Flick .302 (.30237) Cleveland Naps 4

Simon Nicholls .302 (.30217) Philadelphia Athletics 5

Nap Lajoie .299 (.29862) Cleveland Naps 6

Harry Niles .289 (.28862) St. Louis Browns 7

Hal Chase .287 (.28715) New York Highlanders 8

Bunk Congalton .282 (.28185) Cleveland Naps 9

Boston Americans

Topsy Hartsel .280 (.28008) Philadelphia Athletics 10

Jim Delahanty .279 (.27856) St. Louis Browns 11

Washington Senators

Jimmy Collins .278 (.27778) Boston Americans 12

Philadelphia Athletics

George Moriarty .277 (.27689) New York Highlanders 13

Claude Rossman .277 (.27671) Detroit Tigers 14

Ollie Pickering .276 (.27604) St. Louis Browns 15

Bob Ganley .276 (.27603) Washington Senators 16

Davy Jones .273 (.27291) Detroit Tigers 17

Socks Seybold .271 (.27128) Philadelphia Athletics 18

Danny Murphy .271 (.27079) Philadelphia Athletics 19

Kid Elberfeld .271 (.27069) New York Highlanders 20

Frank LaPorte .270 (.27021) New York Highlanders 21

Patsy Dougherty .270 (.27017) Chicago White Sox 22

Jimmy Williams .270 (.26984) New York Highlanders 23

Dave Altizer .269 (.26852) Washington Senators 24

Harry Davis .266 (.26632) Philadelphia Athletics 25

Name Batting Average Team Rank

Jim Thome wore number twenty-five since he first came up with the Cleveland Indians making him the franchise record holder for that particular number (Mike Garcia is second).

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.

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.

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