Hits : 1906 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:

"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)
 

1906 Hits Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Nap Lajoie 214 Cleveland Naps 1
George Stone 208 St. Louis Browns 2
Elmer Flick 194 Cleveland Naps 3
Hal Chase 193 New York Highlanders 4
Willie Keeler 180 New York Highlanders 5
Chick Stahl 170 Boston Americans 6
Terry Turner 170 Cleveland Naps  
Charlie Hemphill 169 St. Louis Browns 8
Sam Crawford 166 Detroit Tigers 9
Harry Davis 161 Philadelphia Athletics 10
John Anderson 158 Washington Senators 11
Frank Isbell 153 Chicago White Sox 12
Jiggs Donahue 143 Chicago White Sox 13
Freddy Parent 141 Boston Americans 14
Wid Conroy 139 New York Highlanders 15
Jimmy Williams 139 New York Highlanders  
Topsy Hartsel 136 Philadelphia Athletics 17
Tom Jones 136 St. Louis Browns  
Danny Murphy 135 Philadelphia Athletics 19
Bunk Congalton 134 Cleveland Naps 20
George Davis 134 Chicago White Sox  
Lave Cross 130 Washington Senators 22
Socks Seybold 130 Philadelphia Athletics  
Charlie Hickman 128 Washington Senators 24
Matty McIntyre 128 Detroit Tigers  



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.