Hits : 1935 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:

"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)
 

1935 Hits Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Joe Vosmik 216 Cleveland Indians 1
Buddy Myer 215 Washington Senators 2
Doc Cramer 214 Philadelphia Athletics 3
Hank Greenberg 203 Detroit Tigers 4
Charlie Gehringer 201 Detroit Tigers 5
Moose Solters 201 Boston Red Sox  
St. Louis Browns  
Red Rolfe 192 New York Yankees 7
Jimmie Foxx 185 Philadelphia Athletics 8
Odell Hale 179 Cleveland Indians 9
Rip Radcliff 178 Chicago White Sox 10
Mel Almada 176 Boston Red Sox 11
Lou Gehrig 176 New York Yankees  
Bob Johnson 174 Philadelphia Athletics 13
Roy Johnson 174 Boston Red Sox  
Goose Goslin 172 Detroit Tigers 15
Jake Powell 172 Washington Senators  
Hal Trosky 171 Cleveland Indians 17
Cecil Travis 170 Washington Senators 18
Pete Fox 166 Detroit Tigers 19
Joe Kuhel 165 Washington Senators 20
Joe Cronin 164 Boston Red Sox 21
Earl Averill 162 Cleveland Indians 22
Zeke Bonura 162 Chicago White Sox  
Luke Appling 161 Chicago White Sox 24
Bill Knickerbocker 161 Cleveland Indians  



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.

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

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.