Top 25 Batting Average in 1929 in the National League

Batting Average : 1929 National League Top 25

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"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)

1929 Batting Average Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Batting Average Team Rank

Lefty O'Doul .398 (.39812) Philadelphia Phillies 1

Babe Herman .381 (.38137) Brooklyn Robins 2

Rogers Hornsby .380 (.38040) Chicago Cubs 3

Bill Terry .372 (.37232) New York Giants 4

Riggs Stephenson .362 (.36162) Chicago Cubs 5

Kiki Cuyler .360 (.35953) Chicago Cubs 6

Pie Traynor .356 (.35556) Pittsburgh Pirates 7

Chuck Klein .356 (.35552) Philadelphia Phillies 8

Lloyd Waner .353 (.35347) Pittsburgh Pirates 9

Hack Wilson .345 (.34495) Chicago Cubs 10

Chick Hafey .338 (.33849) St. Louis Cardinals 11

Taylor Douthit .336 (.33605) St. Louis Cardinals 12

Paul Waner .336 (.33557) Pittsburgh Pirates 13

Frankie Frisch .334 (.33397) St. Louis Cardinals 14

Mel Ott .328 (.32844) New York Giants 15

Johnny Frederick .328 (.32803) Brooklyn Robins 16

Pinky Whitney .327 (.32680) Philadelphia Phillies 17

George Sisler .326 (.32591) Boston Braves 18

Edd Roush .324 (.32444) New York Giants 19

Fresco Thompson .324 (.32424) Philadelphia Phillies 20

Adam Comorosky .321 (.32135) Pittsburgh Pirates 21

Freddie Lindstrom .319 (.31876) New York Giants 22

Rube Bressler .318 (.31798) Brooklyn Robins 23

Jim Bottomley .314 (.31429) St. Louis Cardinals 24

Curt Walker .313 (.31301) Cincinnati Reds 25

Name Batting Average Team Rank

The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

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.

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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