2002 Batting Average Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank
Manny Ramirez	.349 (.34862)	Boston Red Sox	1
Mike Sweeney	.340 (.33970)	Kansas City Royals	2
Bernie Williams	.333 (.33333)	New York Yankees	3
Ichiro Suzuki	.321 (.32148)	Seattle Mariners	4
Magglio Ordonez	.320 (.32034)	Chicago White Sox	5
Jason Giambi	.314 (.31429)	New York Yankees	6
Adam Kennedy	.312 (.31224)	Anaheim Angels	7
Nomar Garciaparra	.310 (.31024)	Boston Red Sox	8
Miguel Tejada	.308 (.30816)	Oakland Athletics	9
Garret Anderson	.306 (.30564)	Anaheim Angels	10
Jim Thome	.304 (.30417)	Cleveland Indians	11
Paul Konerko	.304 (.30351)	Chicago White Sox	12
Shannon Stewart	.303 (.30329)	Toronto Blue Jays	13
Ellis Burks	.301 (.30116)	Cleveland Indians	14
Randall Simon	.301 (.30083)	Detroit Tigers	15
Alfonso Soriano	.300 (.30029)	New York Yankees	16
John Olerud	.300 (.30018)	Seattle Mariners	17
Jacque Jones	.300 (.29983)	Minnesota Twins	18
Alex Rodriguez	.300 (.29968)	Texas Rangers	19
Randy Winn	.298 (.29819)	Tampa Bay Devil Rays	20
Derek Jeter	.297 (.29658)	New York Yankees	21
Raul Ibanez	.294 (.29376)	Kansas City Royals	22
Shea Hillenbrand	.293 (.29338)	Boston Red Sox	23
David Eckstein	.293 (.29276)	Anaheim Angels	24
Ray Durham	.289 (.28901)	Chicago White Sox	25
		Oakland Athletics
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.