Top 25 Batting Average in 1943 in the American League

Batting Average : 1943 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)

1943 Batting Average Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Batting Average Team Rank

Luke Appling .328 (.32821) Chicago White Sox 1

Dick Wakefield .316 (.31596) Detroit Tigers 2

Doc Cramer .300 (.30033) Detroit Tigers 3

George Case .294 (.29364) Washington Senators 4

Guy Curtright .291 (.29098) Chicago White Sox 5

Vern Stephens .289 (.28906) St. Louis Browns 6

Roy Cullenbine .289 (.28893) Cleveland Indians 7

Pete Fox .288 (.28834) Boston Red Sox 8

Lou Boudreau .286 (.28571) Cleveland Indians 9

Billy Johnson .280 (.28041) New York Yankees 10

Milt Byrnes .280 (.27972) St. Louis Browns 11

Pinky Higgins .277 (.27725) Detroit Tigers 12

Oris Hockett .276 (.27621) Cleveland Indians 13

Jeff Heath .274 (.27358) Cleveland Indians 14

Don Gutteridge .273 (.27323) St. Louis Browns 15

Charlie Keller .271 (.27148) New York Yankees 16

Rudy York .271 (.27145) Detroit Tigers 17

Jerry Priddy .271 (.27143) Washington Senators 18

Nick Etten .271 (.27101) New York Yankees 19

Bobby Doerr .270 (.26987) Boston Red Sox 20

Mickey Vernon .268 (.26763) Washington Senators 21

Stan Spence .267 (.26667) Washington Senators 22

Skeeter Newsome .265 (.26503) Boston Red Sox 23

Bob Johnson .265 (.26484) Washington Senators 24

Jake Early .258 (.25768) Washington Senators 25

Name Batting Average Team Rank

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.

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).

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