Slugging Average : 1905 American League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)
 

1905 Slugging Average Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Elmer Flick .462 (.46200) Cleveland Naps 1
Sam Crawford .430 (.42957) Detroit Tigers 2
Harry Davis .422 (.42175) Philadelphia Athletics 3
George Stone .410 (.40981) St. Louis Browns 4
Charlie Hickman .405 (.40489) Detroit Tigers 5
Washington Senators  
Socks Seybold .402 (.40244) Philadelphia Athletics 6
Danny Murphy .389 (.38920) Philadelphia Athletics 7
Jake Stahl .371 (.37126) Washington Senators 8
Jimmy Collins .370 (.37008) Boston Americans 9
Harry Bay .370 (.36957) Cleveland Naps 10
Willie Keeler .363 (.36250) New York Highlanders 11
Hobe Ferris .361 (.36138) Boston Americans 12
John Anderson .361 (.36072) New York Highlanders 13
Washington Senators  
Terry Turner .360 (.36007) Cleveland Naps 14
Bill Bradley .353 (.35305) Cleveland Naps 15
Bobby Wallace .349 (.34923) St. Louis Browns 16
Jiggs Donahue .349 (.34897) Chicago White Sox 17
Topsy Hartsel .346 (.34572) Philadelphia Athletics 18
Jesse Burkett .344 (.34380) Boston Americans 19
Jimmy Williams .343 (.34255) New York Highlanders 20
Kip Selbach .342 (.34211) Boston Americans 21
George Davis .340 (.34000) Chicago White Sox 22
Buck Freeman .338 (.33846) Boston Americans 23
Emil Frisk .336 (.33566) St. Louis Browns 24
Danny Hoffman .333 (.33333) Philadelphia Athletics 25



The most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?

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).