Slugging Average : 1948 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)
 

1948 Slugging Average Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Ted Williams .615 (.61493) Boston Red Sox 1
Joe DiMaggio .598 (.59764) New York Yankees 2
Tommy Henrich .554 (.55442) New York Yankees 3
Lou Boudreau .534 (.53393) Cleveland Indians 4
Ken Keltner .522 (.52151) Cleveland Indians 5
Joe Gordon .507 (.50727) Cleveland Indians 6
Bobby Doerr .505 (.50474) Boston Red Sox 7
Pat Mullin .504 (.50403) Detroit Tigers 8
Larry Doby .490 (.48975) Cleveland Indians 9
Yogi Berra .488 (.48827) New York Yankees 10
Al Zarilla .482 (.48204) St. Louis Browns 11
Vern Stephens .471 (.47087) Boston Red Sox 12
Hank Majeski .454 (.45424) Philadelphia Athletics 13
Hoot Evers .454 (.45353) Detroit Tigers 14
Billy Johnson .446 (.44619) New York Yankees 15
Jerry Priddy .443 (.44286) St. Louis Browns 16
Dale Mitchell .431 (.43092) Cleveland Indians 17
Bob Dillinger .415 (.41460) St. Louis Browns 18
Sam Chapman .413 (.41348) Philadelphia Athletics 19
Whitey Platt .410 (.40969) St. Louis Browns 20
Eddie Robinson .408 (.40771) Cleveland Indians 21
Jim Hegan .407 (.40678) Cleveland Indians 22
Dom DiMaggio .401 (.40123) Boston Red Sox 23
Johnny Lipon .397 (.39738) Detroit Tigers 24
Ferris Fain .396 (.39615) Philadelphia Athletics 25



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.

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.

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