Top 25 Batting Average in 1920 in the American League

Batting Average : 1920 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)

1920 Batting Average Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Batting Average Team Rank

George Sisler .407 (.40729) St. Louis Browns 1

Tris Speaker .388 (.38768) Cleveland Indians 2

Joe Jackson .382 (.38246) Chicago White Sox 3

Babe Ruth .376 (.37555) New York Yankees 4

Eddie Collins .372 (.37209) Chicago White Sox 5

Baby Doll Jacobson .355 (.35468) St. Louis Browns 6

Jack Tobin .341 (.34064) St. Louis Browns 7

Sam Rice .338 (.33814) Washington Senators 8

Happy Felsch .338 (.33813) Chicago White Sox 9

Ty Cobb .334 (.33411) Detroit Tigers 10

Joe Judge .333 (.33266) Washington Senators 11

Buck Weaver .331 (.33068) Chicago White Sox 12

Bob Meusel .328 (.32826) New York Yankees 13

Clyde Milan .322 (.32213) Washington Senators 14

Joe Dugan .322 (.32179) Philadelphia Athletics 15

Steve O'Neill .321 (.32106) Cleveland Indians 16

Elmer Smith .316 (.31579) Cleveland Indians 17

Del Pratt .314 (.31359) New York Yankees 18

Harry Hooper .312 (.31157) Boston Red Sox 19

Larry Gardner .310 (.30988) Cleveland Indians 20

Harry Heilmann .309 (.30939) Detroit Tigers 21

Bobby Veach .307 (.30719) Detroit Tigers 22

Ken Williams .307 (.30710) St. Louis Browns 23

Ray Chapman .303 (.30345) Cleveland Indians 24

Shano Collins .303 (.30303) Chicago White Sox 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.

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

The most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?

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