Hits : 1916 American League Top 25

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1916 Hits Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Tris Speaker 211 Cleveland Indians 1
Joe Jackson 202 Chicago White Sox 2
Ty Cobb 201 Detroit Tigers 3
George Sisler 177 St. Louis Browns 4
Burt Shotton 174 St. Louis Browns 5
Bobby Veach 173 Detroit Tigers 6
Amos Strunk 172 Philadelphia Athletics 7
Eddie Collins 168 Chicago White Sox 8
Happy Felsch 164 Chicago White Sox 9
Del Pratt 159 St. Louis Browns 10
Harry Hooper 156 Boston Red Sox 11
Clyde Milan 154 Washington Senators 12
Eddie Foster 153 Washington Senators 13
Larry Gardner 152 Boston Red Sox 14
Duffy Lewis 151 Boston Red Sox 15
Stuffy McInnis 151 Philadelphia Athletics  
Wally Pipp 143 New York Yankees 17
Jack Graney 142 Cleveland Indians 18
Roger Peckinpaugh 141 New York Yankees 19
Ralph Young 139 Detroit Tigers 20
Chick Gandil 138 Cleveland Indians 21
Whitey Witt 138 Philadelphia Athletics  
George Burns 137 Detroit Tigers 23
Ossie Vitt 135 Detroit Tigers 24
Armando Marsans 134 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.

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.