Hits : 1904 American 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:

"I don't think I stayed for a complete game that first year (in Arizona). But something happened. During the second year, I started watching more intently, listening to the broadcasters talk about strategy. I started getting it. Suddenly, a 162-game season didn't seem ridiculously long anymore." - Richard Ruelas in The Arizona Republic (11-07-2001)
 

1904 Hits Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Nap Lajoie 208 Cleveland Blues 1
Willie Keeler 186 New York Highlanders 2
Bill Bradley 183 Cleveland Blues 3
Patsy Dougherty 181 Boston Americans 4
New York Highlanders  
Elmer Flick 177 Cleveland Blues 5
Lave Cross 176 Philadelphia Athletics 6
Freddy Parent 172 Boston Americans 7
Jimmy Collins 171 Boston Americans 8
Chick Stahl 170 Boston Americans 9
Jimmy Barrett 167 Detroit Tigers 10
Buck Freeman 167 Boston Americans  
Danny Murphy 160 Philadelphia Athletics 12
Jesse Burkett 156 St. Louis Browns 13
John Anderson 155 New York Highlanders 14
Tom Jones 152 St. Louis Browns 15
Socks Seybold 149 Philadelphia Athletics 16
Bobby Wallace 149 St. Louis Browns  
Emmet Heidrick 147 St. Louis Browns 18
Jimmy Williams 147 New York Highlanders  
Matty McIntyre 146 Detroit Tigers 20
Kip Selbach 146 Washington Senators  
Boston Americans  
Sam Crawford 143 Detroit Tigers 22
George Davis 142 Chicago White Sox 23
Danny Green 142 Chicago White Sox  
Joe Cassidy 140 Washington Senators 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.

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.

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.