Total Bases : 1947 American League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"When you're playing 162 baseball games, you're playing almost every day, it's nice to have a guy (Jose Lima) like that around to lighten things up and have fun. It's a huge plus for us." - Detroit Tigers Pitcher Matt Anderson
 

1947 Total Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Ted Williams 335 Boston Red Sox 1
Joe DiMaggio 279 New York Yankees 2
Joe Gordon 279 Cleveland Indians  
Tommy Henrich 267 New York Yankees 4
Johnny Pesky 250 Boston Red Sox 5
George Kell 242 Detroit Tigers 6
Bobby Doerr 239 Boston Red Sox 7
Jeff Heath 238 St. Louis Browns 8
Mickey Vernon 233 Washington Senators 9
Rudy York 232 Boston Red Sox 10
Chicago White Sox  
Lou Boudreau 228 Cleveland Indians 11
Vern Stephens 228 St. Louis Browns  
George McQuinn 226 New York Yankees 13
Stan Spence 223 Washington Senators 14
Jake Jones 222 Chicago White Sox 15
Boston Red Sox  
Barney McCosky 218 Philadelphia Athletics 16
Wally Judnich 213 St. Louis Browns 17
Bob Dillinger 212 St. Louis Browns 18
Sam Chapman 209 Philadelphia Athletics 19
Luke Appling 207 Chicago White Sox 20
Ken Keltner 207 Cleveland Indians  
Billy Johnson 206 New York Yankees 22
Eddie Mayo 203 Detroit Tigers 23
Sam Mele 203 Boston Red Sox  
Dom DiMaggio 200 Boston Red Sox 25



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

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).

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.