Top 25 Slugging Average in 1974 in the American League

Slugging Average : 1974 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)

1974 Slugging Average Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Slugging Average Team Rank

Dick Allen .563 (.56277) Chicago White Sox 1

Reggie Jackson .514 (.51383) Oakland Athletics 2

Jeff Burroughs .504 (.50361) Texas Rangers 3

Joe Rudi .484 (.48398) Oakland Athletics 4

Bill Freehan .479 (.47865) Detroit Tigers 5

Hal McRae .475 (.47495) Kansas City Royals 6

Oscar Gamble .469 (.46916) Cleveland Indians 7

Ken Henderson .467 (.46678) Chicago White Sox 8

Larry Hisle .465 (.46471) Minnesota Twins 9

Frank Robinson .453 (.45283) California Angels 10

Cleveland Indians

Rod Carew .446 (.44574) Minnesota Twins 11

Carl Yastrzemski .445 (.44466) Boston Red Sox 12

George Hendrick .444 (.44444) Cleveland Indians 13

Bobby Darwin .442 (.44174) Minnesota Twins 14

Jorge Orta .440 (.44000) Chicago White Sox 15

Amos Otis .438 (.43841) Kansas City Royals 16

George Scott .432 (.43212) Milwaukee Brewers 17

Charlie Spikes .431 (.43134) Cleveland Indians 18

Bobby Grich .431 (.43127) Baltimore Orioles 19

Johnny Briggs .428 (.42780) Milwaukee Brewers 20

Sal Bando .426 (.42570) Oakland Athletics 21

John Mayberry .424 (.42389) Kansas City Royals 22

John Ellis .421 (.42138) Cleveland Indians 23

Dwight Evans .421 (.42117) Boston Red Sox 24

Rico Petrocelli .421 (.42070) Boston Red Sox 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.

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.

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