On Base Percentage : 1907 American League Top 25

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1907 On Base Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Topsy Hartsel .405 (.40457) Philadelphia Athletics 1
George Stone .387 (.38729) St. Louis Browns 2
Elmer Flick .386 (.38622) Cleveland Naps 3
Ty Cobb .380 (.38013) Detroit Tigers 4
Sam Crawford .366 (.36554) Detroit Tigers 5
Ed Hahn .359 (.35901) Chicago White Sox 6
Davy Jones .357 (.35676) Detroit Tigers 7
Jim Delahanty .350 (.35018) St. Louis Browns 8
Washington Senators  
Fielder Jones .345 (.34548) Chicago White Sox 9
Nap Lajoie .345 (.34495) Cleveland Naps 10
Kid Elberfeld .343 (.34274) New York Highlanders 11
Simon Nicholls .338 (.33814) Philadelphia Athletics 12
Bob Ganley .337 (.33737) Washington Senators 13
Jimmy Collins .332 (.33156) Boston Americans 14
Philadelphia Athletics  
Harry Niles .331 (.33078) St. Louis Browns 15
Bobby Wallace .328 (.32773) St. Louis Browns 16
Danny Hoffman .325 (.32517) New York Highlanders 17
Socks Seybold .324 (.32401) Philadelphia Athletics 18
Patsy Dougherty .322 (.32230) Chicago White Sox 19
Ollie Pickering .321 (.32085) St. Louis Browns 20
George Moriarty .320 (.32043) New York Highlanders 21
Dave Altizer .319 (.31897) Washington Senators 22
Charlie Hemphill .319 (.31860) St. Louis Browns 23
Jimmy Williams .319 (.31852) New York Highlanders 24
Claude Rossman .318 (.31848) Detroit Tigers 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.

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).

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