On Base Percentage : 1916 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)
 

1916 On Base Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Tris Speaker .470 (.46994) Cleveland Indians 1
Ty Cobb .452 (.45177) Detroit Tigers 2
Eddie Collins .405 (.40536) Chicago White Sox 3
Joe Jackson .393 (.39347) Chicago White Sox 4
Amos Strunk .393 (.39315) Philadelphia Athletics 5
Burt Shotton .392 (.39227) St. Louis Browns 6
Larry Gardner .372 (.37201) Boston Red Sox 7
Ward Miller .371 (.37102) St. Louis Browns 8
Bobby Veach .367 (.36715) Detroit Tigers 9
Harry Hooper .361 (.36128) Boston Red Sox 10
George Sisler .355 (.35520) St. Louis Browns 11
Jack Graney .355 (.35498) Cleveland Indians 12
Harry Heilmann .349 (.34940) Detroit Tigers 13
Clyde Milan .343 (.34345) Washington Senators 14
Ralph Young .342 (.34179) Detroit Tigers 15
Happy Felsch .341 (.34138) Chicago White Sox 16
Dick Hoblitzel .338 (.33833) Boston Red Sox 17
Jimmy Austin .333 (.33333) St. Louis Browns 18
Armando Marsans .333 (.33333) St. Louis Browns  
Eddie Foster .332 (.33186) Washington Senators 20
Roger Peckinpaugh .332 (.33171) New York Yankees 21
Stuffy McInnis .331 (.33148) Philadelphia Athletics 22
Wally Pipp .331 (.33111) New York Yankees 23
Del Pratt .331 (.33078) St. Louis Browns 24
Jimmy Walsh .330 (.32976) Philadelphia Athletics 25
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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.