1931 Batting Average Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank
Al Simmons	.390 (.38986)	Philadelphia Athletics	1
Babe Ruth	.373 (.37266)	New York Yankees	2
Ed Morgan	.351 (.35065)	Cleveland Indians	3
Mickey Cochrane	.349 (.34858)	Philadelphia Athletics	4
Lou Gehrig	.341 (.34087)	New York Yankees	5
Earl Averill	.333 (.33333)	Cleveland Indians	6
Earl Webb	.333 (.33277)	Boston Red Sox	7
Sam West	.333 (.33270)	Washington Senators	8
Goose Goslin	.328 (.32826)	St. Louis Browns	9
John Stone	.327 (.32705)	Detroit Tigers	10
Bill Dickey	.327 (.32704)	New York Yankees	11
Dale Alexander	.325 (.32495)	Detroit Tigers	12
Mule Haas	.323 (.32273)	Philadelphia Athletics	13
Joe Vosmik	.320 (.31980)	Cleveland Indians	14
Earle Combs	.318 (.31794)	New York Yankees	15
Ben Chapman	.315 (.31500)	New York Yankees	16
Lew Fonseca	.312 (.31239)	Cleveland Indians	17
		Chicago White Sox
Dick Porter	.312 (.31159)	Cleveland Indians	18
Red Kress	.311 (.31074)	St. Louis Browns	19
Heinie Manush	.307 (.30682)	Washington Senators	20
Ski Melillo	.306 (.30632)	St. Louis Browns	21
Joe Cronin	.306 (.30606)	Washington Senators	22
Lu Blue	.304 (.30390)	Chicago White Sox	23
Fred Schulte	.304 (.30380)	St. Louis Browns	24
Joe Sewell	.302 (.30165)	New York Yankees	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. The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry. 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.