Slugging Average : 1935 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)
 

1935 Slugging Average Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Jimmie Foxx .636 (.63551) Philadelphia Athletics 1
Hank Greenberg .628 (.62843) Detroit Tigers 2
Lou Gehrig .583 (.58318) New York Yankees 3
Joe Vosmik .537 (.53710) Cleveland Indians 4
Pete Fox .513 (.51257) Detroit Tigers 5
Bob Johnson .510 (.51031) Philadelphia Athletics 6
Pinky Higgins .504 (.50382) Philadelphia Athletics 7
Charlie Gehringer .502 (.50164) Detroit Tigers 8
Moose Solters .498 (.49762) Boston Red Sox 9
St. Louis Browns  
Earl Averill .496 (.49556) Cleveland Indians 10
George Selkirk .487 (.48676) New York Yankees 11
Odell Hale .486 (.48557) Cleveland Indians 12
Zeke Bonura .485 (.48545) Chicago White Sox 13
Hal Trosky .468 (.46835) Cleveland Indians 14
Buddy Myer .468 (.46753) Washington Senators 15
Joe Cronin .460 (.46043) Boston Red Sox 16
John Stone .459 (.45934) Washington Senators 17
Bill Dickey .458 (.45759) New York Yankees 18
Mickey Cochrane .450 (.45012) Detroit Tigers 19
Sam West .442 (.44213) St. Louis Browns 20
Harlond Clift .436 (.43579) St. Louis Browns 21
Ben Chapman .430 (.43038) New York Yankees 22
Jake Powell .428 (.42831) Washington Senators 23
Al Simmons .427 (.42667) Chicago White Sox 24
Bill Werber .424 (.42424) 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.

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.