Top 25 On Base Percentage in 1926 in the American League

On Base Percentage : 1926 American League Top 25

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"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)

1926 On Base Percentage Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name On Base Percentage Team Rank

Babe Ruth .516 (.51558) New York Yankees 1

Harry Heilmann .445 (.44503) Detroit Tigers 2

Max Bishop .431 (.43133) Philadelphia Athletics 3

Goose Goslin .425 (.42476) Washington Senators 4

Heinie Manush .421 (.42056) Detroit Tigers 5

Lou Gehrig .420 (.42035) New York Yankees 6

Johnny Mostil .415 (.41509) Chicago White Sox 7

Bibb Falk .415 (.41483) Chicago White Sox 8

Lu Blue .413 (.41267) Detroit Tigers 9

Tris Speaker .408 (.40758) Cleveland Indians 10

Joe Sewell .399 (.39939) Cleveland Indians 11

Willie Kamm .396 (.39572) Chicago White Sox 12

Topper Rigney .395 (.39494) Boston Red Sox 13

George Burns .394 (.39437) Cleveland Indians 14

Earl Sheely .394 (.39374) Chicago White Sox 15

Al Simmons .392 (.39241) Philadelphia Athletics 16

Harry Rice .385 (.38450) St. Louis Browns 17

Sam Rice .380 (.37956) Washington Senators 18

Bing Miller .376 (.37575) Philadelphia Athletics 19

St. Louis Browns

Earl McNeely .373 (.37271) Washington Senators 20

Bob Meusel .373 (.37251) New York Yankees 21

Jimmy Dykes .370 (.37037) Philadelphia Athletics 22

Buddy Myer .370 (.36952) Washington Senators 23

Ossie Bluege .368 (.36833) Washington Senators 24

Homer Summa .368 (.36792) Cleveland Indians 25

Name On Base Percentage Team Rank

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).

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.

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

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