Slugging Average : 1906 National 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)
 

1906 Slugging Average Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Harry Lumley .477 (.47727) Brooklyn Superbas 1
Honus Wagner .459 (.45930) Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Harry Steinfeldt .430 (.43043) Chicago Cubs 3
Frank Chance .430 (.43038) Chicago Cubs 4
Tim Jordan .422 (.42222) Brooklyn Superbas 5
Fred Clarke .412 (.41247) Pittsburgh Pirates 6
Sherry Magee .407 (.40675) Philadelphia Phillies 7
Wildfire Schulte .396 (.39609) Chicago Cubs 8
Art Devlin .390 (.38956) New York Giants 9
Cy Seymour .378 (.37847) Cincinnati Reds 10
New York Giants  
Roger Bresnahan .356 (.35556) New York Giants 11
Jimmy Sheckard .353 (.35337) Chicago Cubs 12
Kitty Bransfield .353 (.35305) Philadelphia Phillies 13
Jim Nealon .353 (.35252) Pittsburgh Pirates 14
Johnny Bates .349 (.34921) Boston Beaneaters 15
Tommy Leach .342 (.34244) Pittsburgh Pirates 16
Fred Tenney .340 (.34007) Boston Beaneaters 17
Claude Ritchey .339 (.33884) Pittsburgh Pirates 18
John Titus .339 (.33884) Philadelphia Phillies  
Whitey Alperman .338 (.33787) Brooklyn Superbas 20
Miller Huggins .338 (.33761) Cincinnati Reds 21
Shad Barry .335 (.33527) Cincinnati Reds 22
St. Louis Cardinals  
Dave Brain .333 (.33333) Boston Beaneaters 23
Del Howard .330 (.33028) Boston Beaneaters 24
Sam Mertes .329 (.32883) New York Giants 25
St. Louis Cardinals  



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.

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).

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.