1918 Batting Average Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank
Ty Cobb	.382 (.38242)	Detroit Tigers	1
George Burns	.352 (.35248)	Philadelphia Athletics	2
George Sisler	.341 (.34071)	St. Louis Browns	3
Tris Speaker	.318 (.31847)	Cleveland Indians	4
Frank Baker	.306 (.30556)	New York Yankees	5
Wally Pipp	.304 (.30372)	New York Yankees	6
Buck Weaver	.300 (.30000)	Chicago White Sox	7
Joe Wood	.296 (.29621)	Cleveland Indians	8
Tilly Walker	.295 (.29469)	Philadelphia Athletics	9
Clyde Milan	.290 (.29026)	Washington Senators	10
Harry Hooper	.289 (.28903)	Boston Red Sox	11
Larry Gardner	.285 (.28510)	Philadelphia Athletics	12
Eddie Foster	.283 (.28324)	Washington Senators	13
Braggo Roth	.283 (.28267)	Cleveland Indians	14
Ray Demmitt	.281 (.28148)	St. Louis Browns	15
Bobby Veach	.279 (.27856)	Detroit Tigers	16
Doc Lavan	.278 (.27802)	Washington Senators	17
Jack Tobin	.277 (.27708)	St. Louis Browns	18
Frank Gilhooley	.276 (.27635)	New York Yankees	19
Eddie Collins	.276 (.27576)	Chicago White Sox	20
Del Pratt	.275 (.27463)	New York Yankees	21
Shano Collins	.274 (.27397)	Chicago White Sox	22
Stuffy McInnis	.272 (.27187)	Boston Red Sox	23
Chick Gandil	.271 (.27107)	Chicago White Sox	24
Ray Chapman	.267 (.26682)	Cleveland Indians	25
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank

	Jose Cruz of the Houston Astros had his number twenty-five retired on October 3, 1992, and became the first Major League player with that particular retired number. 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. The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.