Batting Average : 1921 National League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"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)
 

1921 Batting Average Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Rogers Hornsby .397 (.39696) St. Louis Cardinals 1
Austin McHenry .350 (.35017) St. Louis Cardinals 2
Jack Fournier .343 (.34321) St. Louis Cardinals 3
Irish Meusel .343 (.34300) Philadelphia Phillies 4
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Frankie Frisch .341 (.34142) New York Giants 5
Ross Youngs .327 (.32738) New York Giants 6
Jimmy Johnston .325 (.32532) Brooklyn Robins 7
Carson Bigbee .323 (.32278) Pittsburgh Pirates 8
Ray Grimes .321 (.32075) Chicago Cubs 9
Zack Wheat .320 (.32042) Brooklyn Robins 10
Cy Williams .320 (.32028) Philadelphia Phillies 11
Dave Bancroft .318 (.31848) New York Giants 12
Turner Barber .314 (.31416) Chicago Cubs 13
Tony Boeckel .313 (.31250) Boston Braves 14
Tommy Griffith .312 (.31209) Brooklyn Robins 15
Max Carey .309 (.30902) Pittsburgh Pirates 16
George Kelly .308 (.30835) New York Giants 17
Pat Duncan .308 (.30827) Cincinnati Reds 18
Billy Southworth .308 (.30756) Boston Braves 19
Milt Stock .307 (.30664) St. Louis Cardinals 20
Jake Daubert .306 (.30620) Cincinnati Reds 21
Ray Powell .306 (.30609) Boston Braves 22
Walter Barbare .302 (.30182) Boston Braves 23
Max Flack .301 (.30070) Chicago Cubs 24
George Burns .299 (.29917) New York Giants 25



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.

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.

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