1901 Batting Average Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank
Nap Lajoie	.426 (.42647)	Philadelphia Athletics	1
Mike Donlin	.340 (.34034)	Baltimore Orioles	2
Buck Freeman	.339 (.33878)	Boston Americans	3
Socks Seybold	.334 (.33408)	Philadelphia Athletics	4
Jimmy Collins	.332 (.33156)	Boston Americans	5
John Anderson	.330 (.32986)	Milwaukee Brewers	6
Bill Keister	.328 (.32805)	Baltimore Orioles	7
Lave Cross	.328 (.32783)	Philadelphia Athletics	8
Jack McCarthy	.321 (.32070)	Cleveland Blues	9
Sam Dungan	.320 (.32021)	Washington Senators	10
Jimmy Williams	.317 (.31737)	Baltimore Orioles	11
Irv Waldron	.311 (.31104)	Milwaukee Brewers	12
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Fielder Jones	.311 (.31094)	Chicago White Stockings	13
Ollie Pickering	.309 (.30896)	Cleveland Blues	14
Fred Hartman	.309 (.30867)	Chicago White Stockings	15
Kid Elberfeld	.308 (.30787)	Detroit Tigers	16
Harry Davis	.306 (.30645)	Philadelphia Athletics	17
Freddy Parent	.306 (.30561)	Boston Americans	18
Cy Seymour	.303 (.30347)	Baltimore Orioles	19
Candy LaChance	.303 (.30292)	Cleveland Blues	20
Chick Stahl	.303 (.30291)	Boston Americans	21
Ducky Holmes	.294 (.29423)	Detroit Tigers	22
Dummy Hoy	.294 (.29412)	Chicago White Stockings	23
Jimmy Barrett	.293 (.29336)	Detroit Tigers	24
Bill Bradley	.293 (.29264)	Cleveland Blues	25
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank

	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. 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.