Batting Average : 1960 American League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)
 

1960 Batting Average Leaders

Top 25 in the American League
Pete Runnels .320 (.32008) Boston Red Sox 1
Al Smith .315 (.31530) Chicago White Sox 2
Minnie Minoso .311 (.31134) Chicago White Sox 3
Bill Skowron .309 (.30855) New York Yankees 4
Harvey Kuenn .308 (.30802) Cleveland Indians 5
Roy Sievers .295 (.29505) Chicago White Sox 6
Brooks Robinson .294 (.29412) Baltimore Orioles 7
Tito Francona .292 (.29228) Cleveland Indians 8
Nellie Fox .289 (.28926) Chicago White Sox 9
Vic Power .288 (.28793) Cleveland Indians 10
Ken Aspromonte .288 (.28788) Washington Senators 11
Cleveland Indians  
Gene Woodling .283 (.28276) Baltimore Orioles 12
Roger Maris .283 (.28257) New York Yankees 13
Jimmy Piersall .282 (.28189) Cleveland Indians 14
Norm Siebern .279 (.27885) Kansas City Athletics 15
Al Kaline .278 (.27768) Detroit Tigers 16
Luis Aparicio .277 (.27667) Chicago White Sox 17
Harmon Killebrew .276 (.27602) Washington Senators 18
Mickey Mantle .275 (.27514) New York Yankees 19
Tony Kubek .273 (.27289) New York Yankees 20
Gene Freese .273 (.27253) Chicago White Sox 21
Jerry Lumpe .272 (.27178) Kansas City Athletics 22
Frank Malzone .271 (.27059) Boston Red Sox 23
Earl Battey .270 (.27039) Washington Senators 24
Jim Lemon .269 (.26894) Washington Senators 25



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).

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.
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