Batting Average : 1962 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)
 

1962 Batting Average Leaders

Top 25 in the American League
Pete Runnels .326 (.32562) Boston Red Sox 1
Mickey Mantle .321 (.32095) New York Yankees 2
Floyd Robinson .312 (.31167) Chicago White Sox 3
Chuck Hinton .310 (.30996) Washington Senators 4
Norm Siebern .308 (.30833) Kansas City Athletics 5
Brooks Robinson .303 (.30284) Baltimore Orioles 6
Bobby Richardson .302 (.30202) New York Yankees 7
Jerry Lumpe .301 (.30109) Kansas City Athletics 8
Manny Jimenez .301 (.30063) Kansas City Athletics 9
Rich Rollins .298 (.29808) Minnesota Twins 10
Carl Yastrzemski .296 (.29567) Boston Red Sox 11
Joe Cunningham .295 (.29468) Chicago White Sox 12
Al Smith .292 (.29159) Chicago White Sox 13
Lee Thomas .290 (.28988) Los Angeles Angels 14
Vic Power .290 (.28969) Minnesota Twins 15
Ed Charles .288 (.28785) Kansas City Athletics 16
Bob Johnson .288 (.28755) Washington Senators 17
Tom Tresh .286 (.28617) New York Yankees 18
Jerry Adair .284 (.28439) Baltimore Orioles 19
Frank Malzone .283 (.28271) Boston Red Sox 20
Billy Moran .282 (.28225) Los Angeles Angels 21
Earl Battey .280 (.27969) Minnesota Twins 22
Elston Howard .279 (.27935) New York Yankees 23
Bill Bruton .278 (.27807) Detroit Tigers 24
Eddie Bressoud .277 (.27713) 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.

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.
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