Total Bases : 1937 American League Top 25

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1937 Total Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Joe DiMaggio 418 New York Yankees 1
Hank Greenberg 397 Detroit Tigers 2
Lou Gehrig 366 New York Yankees 3
Wally Moses 357 Philadelphia Athletics 4
Hal Trosky 329 Cleveland Indians 5
Beau Bell 327 St. Louis Browns 6
Gee Walker 317 Detroit Tigers 7
Moose Solters 314 Cleveland Indians 8
Harlond Clift 312 St. Louis Browns 9
Jimmie Foxx 306 Boston Red Sox 10
Bill Dickey 302 New York Yankees 11
Earl Averill 300 Cleveland Indians 12
Pete Fox 299 Detroit Tigers 13
Charlie Gehringer 293 Detroit Tigers 14
Buddy Lewis 284 Washington Senators 15
Joe Cronin 277 Boston Red Sox 16
Mike Kreevich 273 Chicago White Sox 17
Lyn Lary 271 Cleveland Indians 18
Joe Vosmik 270 St. Louis Browns 19
Dixie Walker 266 Chicago White Sox 20
Bob Johnson 265 Philadelphia Athletics 21
Rip Radcliff 260 Chicago White Sox 22
John Stone 260 Washington Senators  
Zeke Bonura 256 Chicago White Sox 24
Luke Appling 252 Chicago White Sox 25



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.

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.