Top 25 Batting Average in 1976 in the American League

Batting Average : 1976 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)

1976 Batting Average Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Batting Average Team Rank

George Brett .333 (.33333) Kansas City Royals 1

Hal McRae .332 (.33207) Kansas City Royals 2

Rod Carew .331 (.33058) Minnesota Twins 3

Lyman Bostock .323 (.32278) Minnesota Twins 4

Ron LeFlore .316 (.31618) Detroit Tigers 5

Fred Lynn .314 (.31361) Boston Red Sox 6

Mickey Rivers .312 (.31186) New York Yankees 7

Rico Carty .310 (.30978) Cleveland Indians 8

Thurman Munson .302 (.30195) New York Yankees 9

Ralph Garr .300 (.29981) Chicago White Sox 10

Rusty Staub .299 (.29881) Detroit Tigers 11

Chris Chambliss .293 (.29329) New York Yankees 12

Rick Manning .292 (.29167) Cleveland Indians 13

Rick Burleson .291 (.29074) Boston Red Sox 14

Mike Hargrove .287 (.28651) Texas Rangers 15

Roy White .286 (.28594) New York Yankees 16

Sixto Lezcano .285 (.28460) Milwaukee Brewers 17

Jim Rice .282 (.28227) Boston Red Sox 18

Buddy Bell .281 (.28146) Cleveland Indians 19

Amos Otis .279 (.27872) Kansas City Royals 20

Ken Singleton .278 (.27757) Baltimore Orioles 21

Reggie Jackson .277 (.27711) Baltimore Orioles 22

Billy North .276 (.27627) Oakland Athletics 23

George Scott .274 (.27393) Milwaukee Brewers 24

Jorge Orta .274 (.27358) Chicago White Sox 25

Name Batting Average Team Rank

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

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.

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.

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