1936 Batting Average Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank
Luke Appling	.388 (.38783)	Chicago White Sox	1
Earl Averill	.378 (.37785)	Cleveland Indians	2
Bill Dickey	.362 (.36170)	New York Yankees	3
Charlie Gehringer	.354 (.35413)	Detroit Tigers	4
Lou Gehrig	.354 (.35406)	New York Yankees	5
Gee Walker	.353 (.35273)	Detroit Tigers	6
Wally Moses	.345 (.34530)	Philadelphia Athletics	7
Beau Bell	.344 (.34416)	St. Louis Browns	8
Hal Trosky	.343 (.34340)	Cleveland Indians	9
John Stone	.341 (.34096)	Washington Senators	10
Jimmie Foxx	.338 (.33846)	Boston Red Sox	11
Rip Radcliff	.335 (.33495)	Chicago White Sox	12
Zeke Bonura	.330 (.33049)	Chicago White Sox	13
Al Simmons	.327 (.32746)	Detroit Tigers	14
Joe DiMaggio	.323 (.32339)	New York Yankees	15
Joe Kuhel	.321 (.32143)	Washington Senators	16
Red Rolfe	.319 (.31866)	New York Yankees	17
Cecil Travis	.317 (.31721)	Washington Senators	18
Odell Hale	.316 (.31613)	Cleveland Indians	19
Ben Chapman	.315 (.31481)	New York Yankees	20
		Washington Senators
Goose Goslin	.315 (.31469)	Detroit Tigers	21
Rick Ferrell	.312 (.31220)	Boston Red Sox	22
George Selkirk	.308 (.30832)	New York Yankees	23
Mike Kreevich	.307 (.30727)	Chicago White Sox	24
Harlond Clift	.302 (.30208)	St. Louis Browns	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. The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.