Top 25 Slugging Average in 1927 in the American League

Slugging Average : 1927 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)

1927 Slugging Average Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Slugging Average Team Rank

Babe Ruth .772 (.77222) New York Yankees 1

Lou Gehrig .765 (.76541) New York Yankees 2

Harry Heilmann .616 (.61584) Detroit Tigers 3

Ken Williams .525 (.52482) St. Louis Browns 4

Goose Goslin .516 (.51635) Washington Senators 5

Bob Fothergill .516 (.51613) Detroit Tigers 6

Earle Combs .511 (.51080) New York Yankees 7

Bob Meusel .510 (.50969) New York Yankees 8

Mickey Cochrane .495 (.49537) Philadelphia Athletics 9

Tony Lazzeri .482 (.48246) New York Yankees 10

Ty Cobb .482 (.48163) Philadelphia Athletics 11

Bibb Falk .465 (.46542) Chicago White Sox 12

Jimmy Dykes .453 (.45324) Philadelphia Athletics 13

Bing Miller .449 (.44919) St. Louis Browns 14

Tris Speaker .444 (.44359) Washington Senators 15

Heinie Manush .442 (.44182) Detroit Tigers 16

Charlie Gehringer .441 (.44094) Detroit Tigers 17

George Burns .435 (.43534) Cleveland Indians 18

George Sisler .430 (.42997) St. Louis Browns 19

Alex Metzler .429 (.42910) Chicago White Sox 20

Joe Sewell .424 (.42355) Cleveland Indians 21

Sammy Hale .423 (.42315) Philadelphia Athletics 22

Joe Judge .418 (.41762) Washington Senators 23

Harry Rice .412 (.41154) St. Louis Browns 24

Bill Regan .408 (.40812) Boston Red Sox 25

Name Slugging Average Team Rank

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.

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.

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