1938 Batting Average Leaders Top 25 in the National League
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank
Ernie Lombardi	.342 (.34151)	Cincinnati Reds	1
Johnny Mize	.337 (.33710)	St. Louis Cardinals	2
Frank McCormick	.327 (.32656)	Cincinnati Reds	3
Joe Medwick	.322 (.32203)	St. Louis Cardinals	4
Arky Vaughan	.322 (.32163)	Pittsburgh Pirates	5
Stan Hack	.320 (.32020)	Chicago Cubs	6
Debs Garms	.315 (.31542)	Boston Bees	7
Lloyd Waner	.313 (.31341)	Pittsburgh Pirates	8
Mel Ott	.311 (.31120)	New York Giants	9
Harry Danning	.306 (.30580)	New York Giants	10
Jo-Jo Moore	.302 (.30237)	New York Giants	11
Carl Reynolds	.302 (.30181)	Chicago Cubs	12
Johnny Rizzo	.301 (.30090)	Pittsburgh Pirates	13
Ernie Koy	.299 (.29942)	Brooklyn Dodgers	14
Wally Berger	.298 (.29841)	New York Giants	15
		Cincinnati Reds
Hersh Martin	.298 (.29828)	Philadelphia Phillies	16
Gus Suhr	.294 (.29434)	Pittsburgh Pirates	17
Ival Goodman	.292 (.29225)	Cincinnati Reds	18
Goody Rosen	.281 (.28118)	Brooklyn Dodgers	19
Joe Stripp	.280 (.28037)	St. Louis Cardinals	20
		Boston Bees
Paul Waner	.280 (.28000)	Pittsburgh Pirates	21
Pep Young	.278 (.27758)	Pittsburgh Pirates	22
Billy Herman	.277 (.27724)	Chicago Cubs	23
Morrie Arnovich	.275 (.27490)	Philadelphia Phillies	24
Frank Demaree	.273 (.27311)	Chicago Cubs	25
Name	Batting Average	Team	Rank

	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. 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. 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).