1946 Batting Average Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank
Mickey Vernon	.353 (.35264)	Washington Senators	1
Ted Williams	.342 (.34241)	Boston Red Sox	2
Johnny Pesky	.335 (.33494)	Boston Red Sox	3
George Kell	.322 (.32246)	Philadelphia Athletics	4
		Detroit Tigers
Barney McCosky	.318 (.31830)	Detroit Tigers	5
		Philadelphia Athletics
Dom DiMaggio	.316 (.31648)	Boston Red Sox	6
Luke Appling	.309 (.30928)	Chicago White Sox	7
Vern Stephens	.307 (.30667)	St. Louis Browns	8
Hank Edwards	.301 (.30131)	Cleveland Indians	9
Lou Boudreau	.293 (.29320)	Cleveland Indians	10
Stan Spence	.292 (.29239)	Washington Senators	11
Buddy Lewis	.292 (.29210)	Washington Senators	12
Joe DiMaggio	.290 (.29026)	New York Yankees	13
Thurman Tucker	.288 (.28767)	Chicago White Sox	14
Pete Suder	.281 (.28132)	Philadelphia Athletics	15
Don Kolloway	.280 (.28008)	Chicago White Sox	16
Joe Grace	.278 (.27801)	St. Louis Browns	17
		Washington Senators
Jeff Heath	.278 (.27801)	Washington Senators
		St. Louis Browns
Hank Greenberg	.277 (.27725)	Detroit Tigers	19
Rudy York	.276 (.27634)	Boston Red Sox	20
Charlie Keller	.275 (.27509)	New York Yankees	21
Bobby Doerr	.271 (.27101)	Boston Red Sox	22
Johnny Berardino	.265 (.26460)	St. Louis Browns	23
Wally Judnich	.262 (.26223)	St. Louis Browns	24
Sam Chapman	.261 (.26055)	Philadelphia Athletics	25
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank

	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. 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. 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).