1940 Batting Average Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank
Joe DiMaggio	.352 (.35236)	New York Yankees	1
Luke Appling	.348 (.34806)	Chicago White Sox	2
Ted Williams	.344 (.34403)	Boston Red Sox	3
Rip Radcliff	.342 (.34247)	St. Louis Browns	4
Hank Greenberg	.340 (.34031)	Detroit Tigers	5
Barney McCosky	.340 (.33956)	Detroit Tigers	6
Taffy Wright	.337 (.33735)	Chicago White Sox	7
Cecil Travis	.322 (.32197)	Washington Senators	8
Lou Finney	.320 (.32022)	Boston Red Sox	9
Buddy Lewis	.317 (.31667)	Washington Senators	10
Rudy York	.316 (.31633)	Detroit Tigers	11
Charlie Gehringer	.313 (.31262)	Detroit Tigers	12
Wally Moses	.309 (.30912)	Philadelphia Athletics	13
Frankie Hayes	.308 (.30753)	Philadelphia Athletics	14
Roy Weatherly	.303 (.30277)	Cleveland Indians	15
Doc Cramer	.303 (.30257)	Boston Red Sox	16
Wally Judnich	.303 (.30250)	St. Louis Browns	17
Jimmie Foxx	.297 (.29709)	Boston Red Sox	18
Lou Boudreau	.295 (.29506)	Cleveland Indians	19
Hal Trosky	.295 (.29502)	Cleveland Indians	20
Gee Walker	.294 (.29412)	Washington Senators	21
George Case	.293 (.29268)	Washington Senators	22
Bobby Doerr	.291 (.29076)	Boston Red Sox	23
Ben Chapman	.287 (.28650)	Cleveland Indians	24
Charlie Keller	.286 (.28600)	New York Yankees	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. 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.