1949 Batting Average Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank
George Kell	.343 (.34291)	Detroit Tigers	1
Ted Williams	.343 (.34276)	Boston Red Sox	2
Bob Dillinger	.324 (.32353)	St. Louis Browns	3
Dale Mitchell	.317 (.31719)	Cleveland Indians	4
Bobby Doerr	.309 (.30869)	Boston Red Sox	5
Cass Michaels	.308 (.30838)	Chicago White Sox	6
Dom DiMaggio	.307 (.30744)	Boston Red Sox	7
Johnny Pesky	.306 (.30629)	Boston Red Sox	8
Roy Sievers	.306 (.30573)	St. Louis Browns	9
Vic Wertz	.304 (.30428)	Detroit Tigers	10
Hoot Evers	.303 (.30324)	Detroit Tigers	11
Luke Appling	.301 (.30081)	Chicago White Sox	12
Billy Goodman	.298 (.29797)	Boston Red Sox	13
Eddie Robinson	.294 (.29412)	Washington Senators	14
Don Kolloway	.292 (.29158)	Chicago White Sox	15
		Detroit Tigers
Mickey Vernon	.291 (.29110)	Cleveland Indians	16
Jerry Priddy	.290 (.29044)	St. Louis Browns	17
Vern Stephens	.290 (.29016)	Boston Red Sox	18
Tommy Henrich	.287 (.28710)	New York Yankees	19
Dave Philley	.286 (.28595)	Chicago White Sox	20
Lou Boudreau	.284 (.28421)	Cleveland Indians	21
Elmer Valo	.283 (.28336)	Philadelphia Athletics	22
Larry Doby	.280 (.27971)	Cleveland Indians	23
Sam Chapman	.278 (.27844)	Philadelphia Athletics	24
Al Zarilla	.277 (.27736)	St. Louis Browns	25
		Boston Red Sox
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank

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