1908 On Base Percentage Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	On Base Percentage	Team	Rank
Doc Gessler	.394 (.39437)	Boston Red Sox	1
Matty McIntyre	.392 (.39150)	Detroit Tigers	2
Charlie Hemphill	.374 (.37390)	New York Highlanders	3
Topsy Hartsel	.371 (.37071)	Philadelphia Athletics	4
Patsy Dougherty	.367 (.36727)	Chicago White Sox	5
Ty Cobb	.367 (.36715)	Detroit Tigers	6
Fielder Jones	.366 (.36597)	Chicago White Sox	7
Sam Crawford	.355 (.35499)	Detroit Tigers	8
Nap Lajoie	.352 (.35165)	Cleveland Naps	9
Josh Clarke	.348 (.34790)	Cleveland Naps	10
George Stone	.345 (.34520)	St. Louis Browns	11
Amby McConnell	.343 (.34301)	Boston Red Sox	12
Harry Davis	.332 (.33218)	Philadelphia Athletics	13
Claude Rossman	.330 (.32971)	Detroit Tigers	14
Ed Hahn	.329 (.32866)	Chicago White Sox	15
Bobby Wallace	.327 (.32717)	St. Louis Browns	16
Jake Stahl	.319 (.31864)	New York Highlanders	17
		Boston Red Sox
George Stovall	.316 (.31646)	Cleveland Naps	18
Jimmy Williams	.310 (.30988)	St. Louis Browns	19
Danny Murphy	.309 (.30948)	Philadelphia Athletics	20
Bob Unglaub	.308 (.30769)	Boston Red Sox	21
		Washington Senators
Germany Schaefer	.304 (.30386)	Detroit Tigers	22
Clyde Milan	.304 (.30377)	Washington Senators	23
Jerry Freeman	.304 (.30351)	Washington Senators	24
Bill Hinchman	.301 (.30137)	Cleveland Naps	25
Name	On Base Percentage	Team	Rank

	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. 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). 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.