1976 Batting Average Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank
George Brett	.333 (.33333)	Kansas City Royals	1
Hal McRae	.332 (.33207)	Kansas City Royals	2
Rod Carew	.331 (.33058)	Minnesota Twins	3
Lyman Bostock	.323 (.32278)	Minnesota Twins	4
Ron LeFlore	.316 (.31618)	Detroit Tigers	5
Fred Lynn	.314 (.31361)	Boston Red Sox	6
Mickey Rivers	.312 (.31186)	New York Yankees	7
Rico Carty	.310 (.30978)	Cleveland Indians	8
Thurman Munson	.302 (.30195)	New York Yankees	9
Ralph Garr	.300 (.29981)	Chicago White Sox	10
Rusty Staub	.299 (.29881)	Detroit Tigers	11
Chris Chambliss	.293 (.29329)	New York Yankees	12
Rick Manning	.292 (.29167)	Cleveland Indians	13
Rick Burleson	.291 (.29074)	Boston Red Sox	14
Mike Hargrove	.287 (.28651)	Texas Rangers	15
Roy White	.286 (.28594)	New York Yankees	16
Sixto Lezcano	.285 (.28460)	Milwaukee Brewers	17
Jim Rice	.282 (.28227)	Boston Red Sox	18
Buddy Bell	.281 (.28146)	Cleveland Indians	19
Amos Otis	.279 (.27872)	Kansas City Royals	20
Ken Singleton	.278 (.27757)	Baltimore Orioles	21
Reggie Jackson	.277 (.27711)	Baltimore Orioles	22
Billy North	.276 (.27627)	Oakland Athletics	23
George Scott	.274 (.27393)	Milwaukee Brewers	24
Jorge Orta	.274 (.27358)	Chicago White Sox	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. 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. 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).