Top 25 On Base Percentage in 1911 in the American League

On Base Percentage : 1911 American League Top 25

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"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)

1911 On Base Percentage Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name On Base Percentage Team Rank

Joe Jackson .468 (.46772) Cleveland Naps 1

Ty Cobb .467 (.46656) Detroit Tigers 2

Eddie Collins .451 (.45088) Philadelphia Athletics 3

Sam Crawford .438 (.43780) Detroit Tigers 4

Tris Speaker .418 (.41783) Boston Red Sox 5

Birdie Cree .415 (.41451) New York Highlanders 6

Germany Schaefer .412 (.41165) Washington Senators 7

Jim Delahanty .411 (.41118) Detroit Tigers 8

Doc Gessler .406 (.40625) Washington Senators 9

Kid Elberfeld .405 (.40486) Washington Senators 10

Harry Hooper .399 (.39933) Boston Red Sox 11

Danny Murphy .398 (.39753) Philadelphia Athletics 12

Matty McIntyre .397 (.39655) Chicago White Sox 13

Harry Wolter .396 (.39600) New York Highlanders 14

Clyde Milan .395 (.39455) Washington Senators 15

Frank Baker .379 (.37855) Philadelphia Athletics 16

Roy Hartzell .375 (.37542) New York Highlanders 17

Bert Daniels .375 (.37500) New York Highlanders 18

Larry Gardner .373 (.37255) Boston Red Sox 19

Harry Lord .364 (.36394) Chicago White Sox 20

Jack Graney .363 (.36258) Cleveland Naps 21

Frank LaPorte .361 (.36147) St. Louis Browns 22

Stuffy McInnis .361 (.36145) Philadelphia Athletics 23

Duffy Lewis .355 (.35516) Boston Red Sox 24

Bris Lord .355 (.35505) Philadelphia Athletics 25

Name On Base Percentage Team Rank

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.

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?

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