Slugging Average : 1924 American League Top 25

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"What people don't understand is, one day off for Cal Ripken would not recharge his batteries. One day would not do it. He's not playing 2,130 games in a row. Cal is ONLY playing 162 games a year." - Frank Robinson in The Sporting News (September 11, 1995)
 

1924 Slugging Average Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Babe Ruth .739 (.73913) New York Yankees 1
Harry Heilmann .533 (.53333) Detroit Tigers 2
Ken Williams .533 (.53266) St. Louis Browns 3
Baby Doll Jacobson .529 (.52850) St. Louis Browns 4
Goose Goslin .516 (.51641) Washington Senators 5
Joe Hauser .516 (.51601) Philadelphia Athletics 6
Tris Speaker .510 (.51029) Cleveland Indians 7
Ike Boone .497 (.49692) Boston Red Sox 8
Bob Meusel .494 (.49396) New York Yankees 9
Bibb Falk .487 (.48669) Chicago White Sox 10
Harry Hooper .481 (.48109) Chicago White Sox 11
Charlie Jamieson .458 (.45791) Cleveland Indians 12
Wally Pipp .457 (.45671) New York Yankees 13
Eddie Collins .455 (.45504) Chicago White Sox 14
Joe Judge .450 (.44961) Washington Senators 15
Ty Cobb .450 (.44960) Detroit Tigers 16
Heinie Manush .448 (.44787) Detroit Tigers 17
Sam Rice .443 (.44272) Washington Senators 18
Marty McManus .441 (.44118) St. Louis Browns 19
George Burns .437 (.43723) Cleveland Indians 20
Al Simmons .431 (.43098) Philadelphia Athletics 21
Joe Harris .430 (.42974) Boston Red Sox 22
Joe Sewell .429 (.42929) Cleveland Indians 23
Lu Blue .428 (.42785) Detroit Tigers 24
Bobby Veach .426 (.42582) Boston Red Sox 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.

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).