2001 Batting Average Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank
Ichiro Suzuki	.350 (.34971)	Seattle Mariners	1
Jason Giambi	.342 (.34231)	Oakland Athletics	2
Roberto Alomar	.336 (.33565)	Cleveland Indians	3
Bret Boone	.331 (.33066)	Seattle Mariners	4
Frank Catalanotto	.330 (.33045)	Texas Rangers	5
Juan Gonzalez	.325 (.32519)	Cleveland Indians	6
Alex Rodriguez	.318 (.31804)	Texas Rangers	7
Shannon Stewart	.316 (.31563)	Toronto Blue Jays	8
Jeff Conine	.311 (.31107)	Baltimore Orioles	9
Derek Jeter	.311 (.31107)	New York Yankees
Bernie Williams	.307 (.30741)	New York Yankees	11
Edgar Martinez	.306 (.30638)	Seattle Mariners	12
Carlos Beltran	.306 (.30632)	Kansas City Royals	13
Manny Ramirez	.306 (.30624)	Boston Red Sox	14
Doug Mientkiewicz	.306 (.30571)	Minnesota Twins	15
Magglio Ordonez	.305 (.30523)	Chicago White Sox	16
Mike Sweeney	.304 (.30411)	Kansas City Royals	17
John Olerud	.302 (.30245)	Seattle Mariners	18
Cristian Guzman	.302 (.30223)	Minnesota Twins	19
Roger Cedeno	.293 (.29254)	Detroit Tigers	20
Jim Thome	.291 (.29087)	Cleveland Indians	21
Garret Anderson	.289 (.28869)	Anaheim Angels	22
Eric Chavez	.288 (.28804)	Oakland Athletics	23
Tony Clark	.287 (.28738)	Detroit Tigers	24
David Eckstein	.285 (.28522)	Anaheim Angels	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. 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). 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.