Hits : 1905 American League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"The key for this year was staying healthy, playing 154 games (his biggest goal was to play 162 games). When I'm healthy, I'm can put up the best numbers I can." - Juan Gonzalez (1999)
 

1905 Hits Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

George Stone 187 St. Louis Browns 1
Harry Davis 173 Philadelphia Athletics 2
Sam Crawford 171 Detroit Tigers 3
Willie Keeler 169 New York Highlanders 4
Harry Bay 166 Cleveland Naps 5
Charlie Hickman 159 Detroit Tigers 6
Washington Senators  
Bobby Wallace 159 St. Louis Browns  
Lave Cross 156 Philadelphia Athletics 8
Terry Turner 155 Cleveland Naps 9
Elmer Flick 154 Cleveland Naps 10
George Davis 153 Chicago White Sox 11
Jiggs Donahue 153 Chicago White Sox  
Danny Murphy 149 Philadelphia Athletics 13
Topsy Hartsel 148 Philadelphia Athletics 14
Jesse Burkett 147 Boston Americans 15
Bill Bradley 145 Cleveland Naps 16
Freddy Parent 141 Boston Americans 17
Jimmy Collins 140 Boston Americans 18
John Anderson 139 New York Highlanders 19
Washington Senators  
Fielder Jones 139 Chicago White Sox  
Germany Schaefer 135 Detroit Tigers 21
Socks Seybold 135 Philadelphia Athletics  
Matty McIntyre 130 Detroit Tigers 23
Chick Stahl 129 Boston Americans 24
Ben Koehler 127 St. Louis Browns 25



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.

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).