1947 Hits Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Hits	Team	Rank
Johnny Pesky	207	Boston Red Sox	1
George Kell	188	Detroit Tigers	2
Ted Williams	181	Boston Red Sox	3
Barney McCosky	179	Philadelphia Athletics	4
Joe DiMaggio	168	New York Yankees	5
Bob Dillinger	168	St. Louis Browns
Lou Boudreau	165	Cleveland Indians	7
Mickey Vernon	159	Washington Senators	8
Tommy Henrich	158	New York Yankees	9
George McQuinn	157	New York Yankees	10
Vern Stephens	157	St. Louis Browns
Dale Mitchell	156	Cleveland Indians	12
Luke Appling	154	Chicago White Sox	13
Joe Gordon	153	Cleveland Indians	14
Phil Rizzuto	150	New York Yankees	15
Eddie Mayo	149	Detroit Tigers	16
Snuffy Stirnweiss	146	New York Yankees	17
Dom DiMaggio	145	Boston Red Sox	18
Bobby Doerr	145	Boston Red Sox
Dave Philley	142	Chicago White Sox	20
Billy Johnson	141	New York Yankees	21
Stan Spence	141	Washington Senators
Sam Chapman	139	Philadelphia Athletics	23
Ken Keltner	139	Cleveland Indians
Sam Mele	137	Boston Red Sox	25
Name	Hits	Team	Rank

	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. 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).