Slugging Average : 1937 American League Top 25

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"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)
 

1937 Slugging Average Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Joe DiMaggio .673 (.67311) New York Yankees 1
Hank Greenberg .668 (.66835) Detroit Tigers 2
Lou Gehrig .643 (.64323) New York Yankees 3
Zeke Bonura .573 (.57271) Chicago White Sox 4
Bill Dickey .570 (.56981) New York Yankees 5
Bob Johnson .556 (.55556) Philadelphia Athletics 6
Wally Moses .550 (.55008) Philadelphia Athletics 7
Hal Trosky .547 (.54742) Cleveland Indians 8
Harlond Clift .546 (.54641) St. Louis Browns 9
Jimmie Foxx .538 (.53779) Boston Red Sox 10
Moose Solters .533 (.53311) Cleveland Indians 11
Charlie Gehringer .520 (.51950) Detroit Tigers 12
Beau Bell .509 (.50935) St. Louis Browns 13
Gee Walker .499 (.49921) Detroit Tigers 14
Earl Averill .493 (.49261) Cleveland Indians 15
Joe Cronin .486 (.48596) Boston Red Sox 16
John Stone .480 (.47970) Washington Senators 17
Pete Fox .476 (.47611) Detroit Tigers 18
Sam West .473 (.47265) St. Louis Browns 19
Bruce Campbell .471 (.47098) Cleveland Indians 20
Mike Kreevich .468 (.46827) Chicago White Sox 21
Joe Vosmik .455 (.45455) St. Louis Browns 22
Eric McNair .453 (.45275) Boston Red Sox 23
Dixie Walker .449 (.44857) Chicago White Sox 24
Rip Radcliff .445 (.44521) Chicago White Sox 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.

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).