Slugging Average : 1926 National League Top 25

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"What people don't understand is, one day off for Cal Ripken would not recharge his batteries. One day would not do it. He's not playing 2,130 games in a row. Cal is ONLY playing 162 games a year." - Frank Robinson in The Sporting News (September 11, 1995)
 

1926 Slugging Average Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Hack Wilson .539 (.53875) Chicago Cubs 1
Paul Waner .528 (.52799) Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Les Bell .518 (.51807) St. Louis Cardinals 3
Jim Bottomley .506 (.50580) St. Louis Cardinals 4
Babe Herman .500 (.50000) Brooklyn Robins 5
Billy Southworth .497 (.49704) New York Giants 6
St. Louis Cardinals  
George Grantham .490 (.48998) Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Freddy Leach .484 (.48374) Philadelphia Phillies 8
Rogers Hornsby .463 (.46300) St. Louis Cardinals 9
Edd Roush .462 (.46181) Cincinnati Reds 10
Ray Blades .462 (.46154) St. Louis Cardinals 11
Kiki Cuyler .459 (.45928) Pittsburgh Pirates 12
Glenn Wright .459 (.45852) Pittsburgh Pirates 13
Curt Walker .450 (.45009) Cincinnati Reds 14
George Kelly .445 (.44489) New York Giants 15
Pie Traynor .436 (.43554) Pittsburgh Pirates 16
Bob O'Farrell .433 (.43293) St. Louis Cardinals 17
Irish Meusel .432 (.43207) New York Giants 18
Freddie Lindstrom .420 (.41989) New York Giants 19
Eddie Brown .415 (.41503) Boston Braves 20
Johnny Mokan .414 (.41447) Philadelphia Phillies 21
Wally Pipp .413 (.41289) Cincinnati Reds 22
Cliff Heathcote .412 (.41176) Chicago Cubs 23
Frankie Frisch .409 (.40917) New York Giants 24
Charlie Grimm .403 (.40267) Chicago Cubs 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.

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).