Batting Average : 1937 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)
 

1937 Batting Average Leaders

Top 25 in the American League
Charlie Gehringer .371 (.37057) Detroit Tigers 1
Lou Gehrig .351 (.35149) New York Yankees 2
Joe DiMaggio .346 (.34622) New York Yankees 3
Zeke Bonura .345 (.34452) Chicago White Sox 4
Cecil Travis .344 (.34411) Washington Senators 5
Beau Bell .340 (.33956) St. Louis Browns 6
Hank Greenberg .337 (.33670) Detroit Tigers 7
Gee Walker .335 (.33543) Detroit Tigers 8
Bill Dickey .332 (.33208) New York Yankees 9
Pete Fox .331 (.33121) Detroit Tigers 10
John Stone .330 (.33026) Washington Senators 11
Sam West .328 (.32823) St. Louis Browns 12
Rip Radcliff .325 (.32534) Chicago White Sox 13
Joe Vosmik .325 (.32492) St. Louis Browns 14
Moose Solters .323 (.32258) Cleveland Indians 15
Wally Moses .320 (.32049) Philadelphia Athletics 16
Luke Appling .317 (.31707) Chicago White Sox 17
Buddy Lewis .314 (.31437) Washington Senators 18
Joe Cronin .307 (.30702) Boston Red Sox 19
Harlond Clift .306 (.30648) St. Louis Browns 20
Bob Johnson .306 (.30608) Philadelphia Athletics 21
Doc Cramer .305 (.30536) Boston Red Sox 22
Mike Kreevich .302 (.30189) Chicago White Sox 23
Dixie Walker .302 (.30185) Chicago White Sox 24
Pinky Higgins .302 (.30175) Boston Red Sox 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.

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.
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