Slugging Average : 1905 American League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"The key for this year was staying healthy, playing 154 games (his biggest goal was to play 162 games). When I'm healthy, I'm can put up the best numbers I can." - Juan Gonzalez (1999)
 

1905 Slugging Average Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Elmer Flick .462 (.46200) Cleveland Naps 1
Sam Crawford .430 (.42957) Detroit Tigers 2
Harry Davis .422 (.42175) Philadelphia Athletics 3
George Stone .410 (.40981) St. Louis Browns 4
Charlie Hickman .405 (.40489) Detroit Tigers 5
Washington Senators  
Socks Seybold .402 (.40244) Philadelphia Athletics 6
Danny Murphy .389 (.38920) Philadelphia Athletics 7
Jake Stahl .371 (.37126) Washington Senators 8
Jimmy Collins .370 (.37008) Boston Americans 9
Harry Bay .370 (.36957) Cleveland Naps 10
Willie Keeler .363 (.36250) New York Highlanders 11
Hobe Ferris .361 (.36138) Boston Americans 12
John Anderson .361 (.36072) New York Highlanders 13
Washington Senators  
Terry Turner .360 (.36007) Cleveland Naps 14
Bill Bradley .353 (.35305) Cleveland Naps 15
Bobby Wallace .349 (.34923) St. Louis Browns 16
Jiggs Donahue .349 (.34897) Chicago White Sox 17
Topsy Hartsel .346 (.34572) Philadelphia Athletics 18
Jesse Burkett .344 (.34380) Boston Americans 19
Jimmy Williams .343 (.34255) New York Highlanders 20
Kip Selbach .342 (.34211) Boston Americans 21
George Davis .340 (.34000) Chicago White Sox 22
Buck Freeman .338 (.33846) Boston Americans 23
Emil Frisk .336 (.33566) St. Louis Browns 24
Danny Hoffman .333 (.33333) Philadelphia Athletics 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.

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.

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).