Slugging Average : 1901 American League Top 25

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"When you're playing 162 baseball games, you're playing almost every day, it's nice to have a guy (Jose Lima) like that around to lighten things up and have fun. It's a huge plus for us." - Detroit Tigers Pitcher Matt Anderson
 

1901 Slugging Average Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Nap Lajoie .643 (.64338) Philadelphia Athletics 1
Buck Freeman .520 (.52041) Boston Americans 2
Socks Seybold .503 (.50334) Philadelphia Athletics 3
Jimmy Williams .495 (.49501) Baltimore Orioles 4
Jimmy Collins .495 (.49468) Boston Americans 5
Bill Keister .482 (.48190) Baltimore Orioles 6
John Anderson .476 (.47569) Milwaukee Brewers 7
Mike Donlin .475 (.47479) Baltimore Orioles 8
Lave Cross .465 (.46462) Philadelphia Athletics 9
Harry Davis .452 (.45161) Philadelphia Athletics 10
Chick Stahl .439 (.43883) Boston Americans 11
Fred Hartman .431 (.43129) Chicago White Stockings 12
Kid Elberfeld .428 (.42824) Detroit Tigers 13
Pop Foster .422 (.42155) Washington Senators 14
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Sam Dungan .415 (.41503) Washington Senators 15
Freddy Parent .408 (.40812) Boston Americans 16
Ducky Holmes .406 (.40596) Detroit Tigers 17
Bill Bradley .403 (.40310) Cleveland Blues 18
Jack McCarthy .402 (.40233) Cleveland Blues 19
Erve Beck .401 (.40074) Cleveland Blues 20
Dummy Hoy .400 (.40038) Chicago White Stockings 21
Sam Mertes .396 (.39633) Chicago White Stockings 22
Bill Coughlin .395 (.39526) Washington Senators 23
John Farrell .386 (.38559) Washington Senators 24
Herm McFarland .383 (.38266) Chicago White Stockings 25



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

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).

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.