1952 Batting Average Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank
Ferris Fain	.327 (.32714)	Philadelphia Athletics	1
Dale Mitchell	.323 (.32290)	Cleveland Indians	2
Mickey Mantle	.311 (.31148)	New York Yankees	3
George Kell	.311 (.31075)	Detroit Tigers	4
		Boston Red Sox
Gene Woodling	.309 (.30882)	New York Yankees	5
Billy Goodman	.306 (.30604)	Boston Red Sox	6
Al Rosen	.302 (.30159)	Cleveland Indians	7
Bobby Avila	.300 (.29983)	Cleveland Indians	8
Nellie Fox	.296 (.29630)	Chicago White Sox	9
Eddie Robinson	.296 (.29630)	Chicago White Sox
Dom DiMaggio	.294 (.29424)	Boston Red Sox	11
Hank Bauer	.293 (.29295)	New York Yankees	12
Bob Nieman	.289 (.28870)	St. Louis Browns	13
Pete Runnels	.285 (.28468)	Washington Senators	14
Johnny Groth	.284 (.28435)	Detroit Tigers	15
Minnie Minoso	.281 (.28120)	Chicago White Sox	16
Elmer Valo	.281 (.28093)	Philadelphia Athletics	17
Joe Collins	.280 (.28037)	New York Yankees	18
Jackie Jensen	.280 (.28014)	New York Yankees	19
		Washington Senators
Vic Wertz	.277 (.27711)	Detroit Tigers	20
		St. Louis Browns
Walt Dropo	.276 (.27580)	Boston Red Sox	21
		Detroit Tigers
Larry Doby	.276 (.27553)	Cleveland Indians	22
Yogi Berra	.273 (.27341)	New York Yankees	23
Harry Simpson	.266 (.26606)	Cleveland Indians	24
Luke Easter	.263 (.26316)	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. 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.