Top 25 Slugging Average in 1948 in the National League

Slugging Average : 1948 National League Top 25

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"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)

1948 Slugging Average Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Slugging Average Team Rank

Stan Musial .702 (.70213) St. Louis Cardinals 1

Johnny Mize .564 (.56429) New York Giants 2

Sid Gordon .537 (.53743) New York Giants 3

Ralph Kiner .533 (.53333) Pittsburgh Pirates 4

Del Ennis .525 (.52462) Philadelphia Phillies 5

Andy Pafko .516 (.51642) Chicago Cubs 6

Hank Sauer .504 (.50377) Cincinnati Reds 7

Bob Elliott .474 (.47407) Boston Braves 8

Enos Slaughter .470 (.46995) St. Louis Cardinals 9

Wally Westlake .456 (.45561) Pittsburgh Pirates 10

Johnny Wyrostek .455 (.45508) Cincinnati Reds 11

Whitey Lockman .454 (.45377) New York Giants 12

Jackie Robinson .453 (.45296) Brooklyn Dodgers 13

Bill Nicholson .445 (.44534) Chicago Cubs 14

Tommy Holmes .439 (.43932) Boston Braves 15

Al Dark .433 (.43278) Boston Braves 16

Willard Marshall .419 (.41899) New York Giants 17

Eddie Waitkus .416 (.41637) Chicago Cubs 18

Dick Sisler .408 (.40807) Philadelphia Phillies 19

Bobby Thomson .401 (.40127) New York Giants 20

Richie Ashburn .400 (.39957) Philadelphia Phillies 21

Earl Torgeson .397 (.39726) Boston Braves 22

Nippy Jones .397 (.39709) St. Louis Cardinals 23

Pee Wee Reese .390 (.39046) Brooklyn Dodgers 24

Bill Rigney .389 (.38915) New York Giants 25

Name Slugging Average Team Rank

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).

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

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