Top 25 Batting Average in 1942 in the National League

Batting Average : 1942 National League Top 25

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"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)

1942 Batting Average Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Batting Average Team Rank

Enos Slaughter .318 (.31810) St. Louis Cardinals 1

Stan Musial .315 (.31478) St. Louis Cardinals 2

Pete Reiser .310 (.31042) Brooklyn Dodgers 3

Johnny Mize .305 (.30499) New York Giants 4

Lou Novikoff .300 (.30021) Chicago Cubs 5

Stan Hack .300 (.30018) Chicago Cubs 6

Joe Medwick .300 (.30018) Brooklyn Dodgers

Bob Elliott .296 (.29643) Pittsburgh Pirates 8

Mel Ott .295 (.29508) New York Giants 9

Bill Nicholson .294 (.29422) Chicago Cubs 10

Elbie Fletcher .289 (.28854) Pittsburgh Pirates 11

Terry Moore .288 (.28834) St. Louis Cardinals 12

Walker Cooper .281 (.28082) St. Louis Cardinals 13

Tommy Holmes .278 (.27778) Boston Braves 14

Arky Vaughan .277 (.27677) Brooklyn Dodgers 15

Frank McCormick .277 (.27660) Cincinnati Reds 16

Marty Marion .276 (.27629) St. Louis Cardinals 17

Danny Litwhiler .271 (.27073) Philadelphia Phillies 18

Phil Cavarretta .270 (.26971) Chicago Cubs 19

Lonny Frey .266 (.26577) Cincinnati Reds 20

Nick Etten .264 (.26362) Philadelphia Phillies 21

Mickey Witek .260 (.26040) New York Giants 22

Mickey Owen .259 (.25891) Brooklyn Dodgers 23

Billy Jurges .256 (.25647) New York Giants 24

Lennie Merullo .256 (.25631) 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.

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.

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