Hits : 1916 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:

"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)
 

1916 Hits Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Tris Speaker 211 Cleveland Indians 1
Joe Jackson 202 Chicago White Sox 2
Ty Cobb 201 Detroit Tigers 3
George Sisler 177 St. Louis Browns 4
Burt Shotton 174 St. Louis Browns 5
Bobby Veach 173 Detroit Tigers 6
Amos Strunk 172 Philadelphia Athletics 7
Eddie Collins 168 Chicago White Sox 8
Happy Felsch 164 Chicago White Sox 9
Del Pratt 159 St. Louis Browns 10
Harry Hooper 156 Boston Red Sox 11
Clyde Milan 154 Washington Senators 12
Eddie Foster 153 Washington Senators 13
Larry Gardner 152 Boston Red Sox 14
Duffy Lewis 151 Boston Red Sox 15
Stuffy McInnis 151 Philadelphia Athletics  
Wally Pipp 143 New York Yankees 17
Jack Graney 142 Cleveland Indians 18
Roger Peckinpaugh 141 New York Yankees 19
Ralph Young 139 Detroit Tigers 20
Chick Gandil 138 Cleveland Indians 21
Whitey Witt 138 Philadelphia Athletics  
George Burns 137 Detroit Tigers 23
Ossie Vitt 135 Detroit Tigers 24
Armando Marsans 134 St. Louis Browns 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.

The most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?