Batting Average : 1914 National 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)
 

1914 Batting Average Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Jake Daubert .329 (.32911) Brooklyn Robins 1
Beals Becker .325 (.32490) Philadelphia Phillies 2
Jack Dalton .319 (.31900) Brooklyn Robins 3
Zack Wheat .319 (.31895) Brooklyn Robins 4
Casey Stengel .316 (.31553) Brooklyn Robins 5
Sherry Magee .314 (.31434) Philadelphia Phillies 6
George Burns .303 (.30303) New York Giants 7
Gavvy Cravath .299 (.29860) Philadelphia Phillies 8
Heinie Zimmerman .296 (.29610) Chicago Cubs 9
Dots Miller .290 (.28970) St. Louis Cardinals 10
Heinie Groh .288 (.28791) Cincinnati Reds 11
Art Fletcher .286 (.28599) New York Giants 12
Butch Schmidt .285 (.28492) Boston Braves 13
Lee Magee .284 (.28355) St. Louis Cardinals 14
Buck Herzog .281 (.28112) Cincinnati Reds 15
Johnny Evers .279 (.27902) Boston Braves 16
Hans Lobert .275 (.27525) Philadelphia Phillies 17
Wilbur Good .272 (.27241) Chicago Cubs 18
Bobby Byrne .272 (.27195) Philadelphia Phillies 19
Red Smith .272 (.27188) Brooklyn Robins 20
Boston Braves  
Bob Bescher .270 (.26953) New York Giants 21
Jim Viox .265 (.26482) Pittsburgh Pirates 22
Dode Paskert .264 (.26386) Philadelphia Phillies 23
Tommy Leach .263 (.26343) Chicago Cubs 24
Miller Huggins .263 (.26326) St. Louis Cardinals 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).

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.