On Base Percentage : 1905 American League Top 25

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1905 On Base Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Topsy Hartsel .409 (.40909) Philadelphia Athletics 1
Elmer Flick .383 (.38324) Cleveland Naps 2
Willie Keeler .357 (.35691) New York Highlanders 3
Sam Crawford .357 (.35669) Detroit Tigers 4
Kip Selbach .355 (.35451) Boston Americans 5
George Davis .353 (.35342) Chicago White Sox 6
Harry Bay .349 (.34907) Cleveland Naps 7
George Stone .347 (.34655) St. Louis Browns 8
Jiggs Donahue .346 (.34596) Chicago White Sox 9
Emil Frisk .342 (.34232) St. Louis Browns 10
Socks Seybold .341 (.34133) Philadelphia Athletics 11
Danny Murphy .339 (.33901) Philadelphia Athletics 12
Jesse Burkett .339 (.33851) Boston Americans 13
Fielder Jones .335 (.33488) Chicago White Sox 14
Harry Davis .334 (.33436) Philadelphia Athletics 15
Chick Stahl .332 (.33153) Boston Americans 16
Matty McIntyre .330 (.33028) Detroit Tigers 17
Jimmy Collins .330 (.32969) Boston Americans 18
Bobby Wallace .324 (.32385) St. Louis Browns 19
John Anderson .323 (.32331) New York Highlanders 20
Washington Senators  
Bill Bradley .321 (.32075) Cleveland Naps 21
Buck Freeman .316 (.31621) Boston Americans 22
Danny Hoffman .312 (.31237) Philadelphia Athletics 23
Jake Stahl .311 (.31136) Washington Senators 24
Charlie Hickman .311 (.31115) Detroit Tigers 25
Washington Senators  



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

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.