Top 25 Slugging Average in 1926 in the American League

Slugging Average : 1926 American League Top 25

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"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)

1926 Slugging Average Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Slugging Average Team Rank

Babe Ruth .737 (.73737) New York Yankees 1

Al Simmons .564 (.56432) Philadelphia Athletics 2

Heinie Manush .564 (.56426) Detroit Tigers 3

Lou Gehrig .549 (.54895) New York Yankees 4

Goose Goslin .542 (.54225) Washington Senators 5

Harry Heilmann .534 (.53386) Detroit Tigers 6

George Burns .494 (.49420) Cleveland Indians 7

Bibb Falk .477 (.47703) Chicago White Sox 8

Bob Meusel .470 (.46973) New York Yankees 9

Tris Speaker .469 (.46939) Cleveland Indians 10

Johnny Mostil .467 (.46667) Chicago White Sox 11

Bing Miller .462 (.46220) Philadelphia Athletics 12

St. Louis Browns

Tony Lazzeri .462 (.46180) New York Yankees 13

Sam Rice .445 (.44462) Washington Senators 14

Joe Judge .442 (.44150) Washington Senators 15

Harry Rice .441 (.44118) St. Louis Browns 16

Baby Doll Jacobson .436 (.43576) St. Louis Browns 17

Boston Red Sox

Joe Sewell .433 (.43253) Cleveland Indians 18

Earle Combs .429 (.42904) New York Yankees 19

Marty McManus .424 (.42441) St. Louis Browns 20

Earl Sheely .417 (.41714) Chicago White Sox 21

Lu Blue .415 (.41492) Detroit Tigers 22

Homer Summa .403 (.40275) Cleveland Indians 23

Earl McNeely .403 (.40271) Washington Senators 24

Charlie Gehringer .399 (.39869) Detroit Tigers 25

Name Slugging Average Team Rank

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

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.

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.

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