On Base Percentage : 1910 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)
 

1910 On Base Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Ty Cobb .456 (.45645) Detroit Tigers 1
Nap Lajoie .445 (.44512) Cleveland Naps 2
Tris Speaker .404 (.40436) Boston Red Sox 3
Eddie Collins .382 (.38208) Philadelphia Athletics 4
Clyde Milan .379 (.37925) Washington Senators 5
John Knight .372 (.37225) New York Highlanders 6
Donie Bush .365 (.36458) Detroit Tigers 7
Harry Wolter .364 (.36413) New York Highlanders 8
Doc Gessler .361 (.36106) Washington Senators 9
Larry Gardner .354 (.35371) Boston Red Sox 10
Birdie Cree .353 (.35340) New York Highlanders 11
Harry Hooper .346 (.34557) Boston Red Sox 12
Rube Oldring .340 (.34031) Philadelphia Athletics 13
Danny Murphy .338 (.33784) Philadelphia Athletics 14
Jack Barry .336 (.33640) Philadelphia Athletics 15
Heinie Wagner .335 (.33520) Boston Red Sox 16
Jake Stahl .334 (.33391) Boston Red Sox 17
Sam Crawford .332 (.33227) Detroit Tigers 18
Harry Davis .332 (.33213) Philadelphia Athletics 19
Frank Baker .329 (.32888) Philadelphia Athletics 20
Duffy Lewis .328 (.32756) Boston Red Sox 21
Tom Jones .325 (.32495) Detroit Tigers 22
Bobby Wallace .324 (.32437) St. Louis Browns 23
Kid Elberfeld .322 (.32207) Washington Senators 24
George McBride .321 (.32075) 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.

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.