On Base Percentage : 1924 American League Top 25

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1924 On Base Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Babe Ruth .513 (.51259) New York Yankees 1
Eddie Collins .441 (.44136) Chicago White Sox 2
Tris Speaker .432 (.43238) Cleveland Indians 3
Harry Heilmann .428 (.42791) Detroit Tigers 4
Earl Sheely .426 (.42587) Chicago White Sox 5
Ken Williams .425 (.42521) St. Louis Browns 6
Goose Goslin .421 (.42073) Washington Senators 7
Ty Cobb .418 (.41772) Detroit Tigers 8
Harry Hooper .413 (.41284) Chicago White Sox 9
Lu Blue .413 (.41253) Detroit Tigers 10
Topper Rigney .410 (.41030) Detroit Tigers 11
Marty McManus .409 (.40882) St. Louis Browns 12
Charlie Jamieson .407 (.40747) Cleveland Indians 13
Bibb Falk .406 (.40592) Chicago White Sox 14
Joe Harris .406 (.40555) Boston Red Sox 15
Ike Boone .404 (.40406) Boston Red Sox 16
Ira Flagstead .401 (.40123) Boston Red Sox 17
Joe Judge .393 (.39304) Washington Senators 18
Joe Sewell .388 (.38763) Cleveland Indians 19
Sam Rice .382 (.38218) Washington Senators 20
Gene Robertson .373 (.37317) St. Louis Browns 21
Muddy Ruel .370 (.37018) Washington Senators 22
George Burns .370 (.36957) Cleveland Indians 23
Bob Meusel .365 (.36526) New York Yankees 24
Hank Severeid .362 (.36247) St. Louis Browns 25



The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

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.