Batting Average : 1909 American League Top 25

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"What people don't understand is, one day off for Cal Ripken would not recharge his batteries. One day would not do it. He's not playing 2,130 games in a row. Cal is ONLY playing 162 games a year." - Frank Robinson in The Sporting News (September 11, 1995)
 

1909 Batting Average Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Ty Cobb .377 (.37696) Detroit Tigers 1
Eddie Collins .347 (.34676) Philadelphia Athletics 2
Nap Lajoie .324 (.32409) Cleveland Naps 3
Sam Crawford .314 (.31409) Detroit Tigers 4
Harry Lord .311 (.31086) Boston Red Sox 5
Tris Speaker .309 (.30882) Boston Red Sox 6
Frank Baker .305 (.30499) Philadelphia Athletics 7
Jake Stahl .294 (.29425) Boston Red Sox 8
Patsy Dougherty .285 (.28513) Chicago White Sox 9
Doc Gessler .284 (.28444) Boston Red Sox 10
Washington Senators  
Hal Chase .283 (.28270) New York Highlanders 11
Danny Murphy .281 (.28096) Philadelphia Athletics 12
Clyde Engle .278 (.27846) New York Highlanders 13
George Moriarty .273 (.27273) Detroit Tigers 14
Donie Bush .273 (.27256) Detroit Tigers 15
Roy Hartzell .271 (.27059) St. Louis Browns 16
Harry Davis .268 (.26792) Philadelphia Athletics 17
Bob Unglaub .265 (.26458) Washington Senators 18
Freddy Parent .261 (.26059) Chicago White Sox 19
Tom Jones .259 (.25918) St. Louis Browns 20
Detroit Tigers  
Bill Hinchman .258 (.25821) Cleveland Naps 21
Heinie Wagner .256 (.25581) Boston Red Sox 22
George Stovall .246 (.24602) Cleveland Naps 23
Ray Demmitt .246 (.24590) New York Highlanders 24
Harry Niles .245 (.24542) Boston Red Sox 25



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

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.