1877 Batting Average Leaders Top 25 in the National League
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank
Deacon White	.387 (.38722)	Boston Red Caps	1
John Cassidy	.378 (.37849)	Hartford Dark Blues	2
Cal McVey	.368 (.36842)	Chicago White Stockings	3
Jim O'Rourke	.362 (.36226)	Boston Red Caps	4
Cap Anson	.337 (.33725)	Chicago White Stockings	5
Joe Start	.332 (.33210)	Hartford Dark Blues	6
George Hall	.323 (.32342)	Louisville Grays	7
John Clapp	.318 (.31765)	St. Louis Brown Stockings	8
Jack Manning	.317 (.31746)	Cincinnati Red Stockings	9
John Peters	.317 (.31698)	Chicago White Stockings	10
Charley Jones	.313 (.31250)	Cincinnati Red Stockings	11
		Chicago White Stockings
Mike Dorgan	.308 (.30827)	St. Louis Brown Stockings	12
Joe Gerhardt	.304 (.30400)	Louisville Grays	13
John Morrill	.302 (.30165)	Boston Red Caps	14
Lip Pike	.298 (.29771)	Cincinnati Red Stockings	15
Ezra Sutton	.292 (.29249)	Boston Red Caps	16
Juice Latham	.291 (.29137)	Louisville Grays	17
Andy Leonard	.287 (.28676)	Boston Red Caps	18
Orator Shafer	.285 (.28462)	Louisville Grays	19
Tom York	.283 (.28270)	Hartford Dark Blues	20
Bill Crowley	.282 (.28151)	Louisville Grays	21
Paul Hines	.280 (.27969)	Chicago White Stockings	22
Bob Addy	.278 (.27755)	Cincinnati Red Stockings	23
George Wright	.276 (.27586)	Boston Red Caps	24
Jim Devlin	.269 (.26866)	Louisville Grays	25
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank

	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). 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.