On Base Percentage : 1906 American League Top 25

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"What people don't understand is, one day off for Cal Ripken would not recharge his batteries. One day would not do it. He's not playing 2,130 games in a row. Cal is ONLY playing 162 games a year." - Frank Robinson in The Sporting News (September 11, 1995)
 

1906 On Base Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

George Stone .417 (.41719) St. Louis Browns 1
Nap Lajoie .392 (.39185) Cleveland Naps 2
Elmer Flick .372 (.37226) Cleveland Naps 3
Topsy Hartsel .363 (.36276) Philadelphia Athletics 4
Harry Davis .355 (.35537) Philadelphia Athletics 5
Willie Keeler .353 (.35322) New York Highlanders 6
Chick Stahl .346 (.34615) Boston Americans 7
Fielder Jones .346 (.34589) Chicago White Sox 8
Larry Schlafly .345 (.34490) Washington Senators 9
Bobby Wallace .344 (.34387) St. Louis Browns 10
Jimmy Williams .342 (.34182) New York Highlanders 11
Danny Murphy .341 (.34105) Philadelphia Athletics 12
Hal Chase .341 (.34095) New York Highlanders 13
Sam Crawford .341 (.34053) Detroit Tigers 14
George Davis .338 (.33837) Chicago White Sox 15
Terry Turner .338 (.33760) Cleveland Naps 16
Charlie Hemphill .338 (.33758) St. Louis Browns 17
Matty McIntyre .338 (.33757) Detroit Tigers 18
Ed Hahn .331 (.33107) New York Highlanders 19
Chicago White Sox  
Frank Isbell .324 (.32423) Chicago White Sox 20
Dave Altizer .324 (.32353) Washington Senators 21
Jiggs Donahue .320 (.31960) Chicago White Sox 22
Charlie Hickman .311 (.31130) Washington Senators 23
Wid Conroy .304 (.30407) New York Highlanders 24
Lave Cross .303 (.30268) Washington Senators 25



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).

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.