Baseball...numbers, stories and analysis: July 2025

1925…Streaks, a Bellyache and Pee Wee

The 1925 baseball season continued the post-dead ball era tradition of being incredibly offense heavy. Half of the major league teams scored 800 or more runs, an average of over 5 runs per game. Fourteen players amassed over 200 hits in the 154-game season. For perspective, in 2024, in 162 games, only two players reached that plateau.

While the offense prospers, the yin and yang of baseball means that the pitching suffers. How much so? For this season, the offense performed 38.6% better than the pitching. These are based on my unique formulas, so the tangibility of that percentage is debatable, but for my purposes, it holds true.

Both leagues combined to set the following offensive records:

5.24 Runs per game per team, 10.26 runs in each game. Both record highs at the time.

.288 Batting Average

.350 On Base Percentage

.407 Slugging percentage

.750 OPS

And in pitching, these records were set:

1.90 strikeouts per game, lowest since the 19^th century, and still the record

4.56 Earned Run Average

But there was some sort of parity in each league. Only 1 team in each league won more than ninety games. The Washington Senators won 96 and the Pittsburgh Pirates won 95. And both won the pennant by 8.5 games over their nearest rivals.

The offenses would keep growing, leading up to the incredibly offensive 1930 season, where both leagues combined for a .292 composite average, with the National League teams averaging .303.

There were twenty-two qualifying hitters that finished with a batting average of.340 or higher. You would have to go back each year from 2014 through 2024 to find 10 players in total who finished at .340 or above for the season.

Three teams in the National League finished with 68 wins each, to finish at the bottom of the standings. There was more of a discrepancy in the American League, as the Boston Red Sox lost 105 games, finishing 49.5 games back. There 105 losses would be a team record until they lost 107 in the following season.

The Pirates faced the Senators in the World Series, and won the Championship 4 games to 3. Besting Walter Johnson in the deciding game 9-7. Johnson, pitching in his third game in the Series was hit hard, giving up 15 hits and all 9 runs (5 of them earned) while earning a complete game loss. It was his third complete game of the Series, which would be his last post-season appearance.

League Most Valuable Player Sam Peckinpaugh made a record 8 errors in the Series, including two in the Seventh Game, which led to 2 Pirates runs, which was the winning margin for the Pirates.

The year before, Johnson and the Senators won the Series over the Giants, with Johnson starting and completing 2 games. So, to recollect, he started 5 games, and completed all 5. In the 1926 Series, Johnson lost the 2 games he started, but earned the win in the 7^th game, in which he came in to pitch in relief in the 9^th inning, and pitch 4 shutout innings until the Senators scratched out a run in the bottom of the twelfth giving Johnson his only Championship.

But how did the leagues wind up the way they did? Here’s the top performing offensive teams, which drove the league:

American League	National League
Tigers	Pirates
Browns	Cardinals
Senators	Phillies

And then the top pitching teams:

Senators	Reds
A’s	Pirates
White Sox	Giants

And that leads us to the top overall team rankings as:

Pirates	World Series Champions
Senators	American League Champions
A’s	2^nd in American League
Tigers	4^th in American League
Reds	3^rd in National League

Of note for the 1925 season, the Major Leagues established a minimum distance for home run fences, which was 250 feet.

Rogers Hornsby won the National League Triple Crown for the second time. In 1922, he became the first National League batter to win the distinction. He led the league in Batting Average; Home Runs and Runs Batted In.

It would be 1933 before Chuck Klein of the Phillies would be the next National Leaguer to accomplish this, and then 1937 when Cardinal Ducky Medwick would be the last National Leaguer to do so.

And Hornsby combined with Harry Heilmann to lead each league in hitting, both batting right-handed. As an interesting anomaly, the both led the league in batting in 1921, 1923 and 1925.

Hornsby finished with a .403 batting average, his third and last time he would bat .400 in a season. But not without a bit of controversy. On September 27^th, The Rajah would go 3 for 3 to finish the day at .403. He then claimed he was ill, and couldn’t play the following game. There was some sort of discrepancy about that, as the team doctor claimed that Hornsby was fie. As a result, the Cardinals suspended Hornsby for the remainder of the season. He interestingly began the season by taking an 0-4 in the season opener

Hornsby was the player-manager for the Cardinals at the time, was back on the field and at the helm of the Cardinals for the 1926 season, which would be his last for the Cardinals.

But his 1925 season was amazing. He established a new National League record with a .756 slugging percentage, which was finally eclipsed by Barry Bonds in 2001. It remains the Major League record for the highest by a second-baseman.

He and teammate “Sunny” Jim Bottomley finished first and second in the batting race, the only teammates to do this twice. They first did it in 1923.

The youth movement in Philadelphia was about to reap its benefits. Three future Hall of Famers all debuted for Connie Mack’s A’s in 1925. Lefty Grove and Mickey Cochrane both appeared in the season opener, with Jimmie Foxx cracking the line-up 3 weeks later.

A's outfielder Al Simmons rapped out 253 hits, which was the second highest American League total. It moved to third place after Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki made 262 hits in 2004. (George Sisler’s 257 in 1920, when he batted .407 was the American League standard)

The Indians and the Browns set a record in an Opening Day slugfest, with Cleveland getting the 21-14 win. It remains the most runs scored, in total, for an Opening Day contest.

Every Indians starter scored at least a run, including Sherry Smith, the starting pitcher. And every Browns starter did the same, except for their starting pitcher, Bullet Joe Bush, who gave up seven runs in 2 2/3^rd innings.

Young Mickey Cochrane (who, in case you didn’t know, was Mickey Mantle’s namesake) smashed three home-runs in one game, but would up with only six for the season.

And Lefty Grove became the first rookie pitcher to lead the league in strikeouts. He fanned just 116 batters, and walked 131.

The Brooklyn Dodgers lost their owner, Charles Ebbets early in the season, and the Natonal League responded by cancelling the games of April 21^st in his honor. Edward McKeever took over the ballclub, but he would pass away just 8 days after Ebbets, catching a cold at Ebbets’ funeral and succumbing to the flu. The team would then be run by the executors of the Ebbets Estate.

Milt Stock of the Dodgers sets a record by getting four hits in four straight games, while pitcher Burleigh Grimes is responsible for 7 outs in 3 at bats, two double plays and one triple play.

Stock finished with 200 hits, but with less that 40 extra-base-hits. It was the second time in his career and the fourth time in the National League.

Cleveland Indians legend Tris Speaker becomes the 5^th player in history to reach 3,000 hits.

And his teammate, shortstop Joe Sewell was the toughest batter to strike out. Seven times in hi career he led the league with the highest at-bats per strikeout. Over the course of his career, he struck out once in every 63 at-bats.

In 1925, he struck out just 4 times in 608 at-bats, or once every 152 at-bats. Less than once per month.

And White Sox second-baseman Eddie Collins would become the 6^th to reach 3,000 hits.

For the record, in order: Cap Anson, Honus Wagner, Napoleon Lajoie and Ty Cobb were the first four.

Speaking of Cobb, apparently, he was getting a little frustrated at the press that Babe Ruth was receiving, and announced that in his next game, he would try to hit a homer in every at bat, which was counter-intuitive to Cobb’s style of dead-ball era play. But Cobb did hit three homers on that day.

Cobb finished his career with 117 home runs. Babe Ruth finished his career with 124 home runs against the Tigers.

Cobb also took the mound for the second time in his career (the first time was in 1918) and he proceeded to pitch a one-two-three ninth inning against the St. Louis Browns

Legendary Senators pitcher Walter Johnson established a new record for the highest batting average for a pitcher in a season, batting .433.

And Senator’s outfielder Sam Rice established a new record for singles in a season with 182, a record later broken by Willie Wilson of the Kansas City Royals in 1980.

Cincinnati Reds pitcher Dolph Luque became the second National League pitcher to lead the league in Earned Run Average while finishing with a losing record.

Hitting machine George Sisler of the St. Louis Browns got a hit in 34 consecutive games, beginning with opening day. It remains the record for hitting streaks begun on opening day.

And speaking of Opening Day in St. Louis, the Cardinals got twelve hits in the first inning of their opener in a 12-3 win over the Reds.

Pirate outfielder Kiki Cuyler established a new National League record for Runs Scored with 144. It would be broken by Rogers Hornsby in 1929. Cuyler also led the National League in triples with 26, which ties him in second place for the most triples hit in a season. (Shoeless Joe Jackson hit 26 in 1912, and Sam Crawford also hit 26 in 1914). Unfortunately for Cuyler, his 26 triples are not even the Pittsburgh team record.

J. Owen Wilson of the Pirates established the still standing, probably not falling record of 36 in 1912.

Cubs Ace Grover Cleveland Alexander homered on opening day, the first pitcher to do so since 1904.

Tex Vache of the Red Sox is only the second player in history to hit .300 in his only Major League season. (min 100 games/300 at bats)

Plenty of drama happened before the season started, as the Yankees made their way north from Spring Training. Babe Ruth, as he had done in previous years, paid a visit to Hot Springs, Arkansas in order to get himself into playing shape. He had just won a batting title, but was struggling a bit with his weight. According to some, he weighed upwards of 260 pounds by this point, but frankly spent most of his days in Hot Springs carousing, and not putting in the work needed. He ‘fell ill’ in Arkansas, and recovered enough to make it to Spring Training in Saint Petersburg. It was the Yankees first season at Crescent Lake Field. At one point, Ruth refused to shag flies in the outfield due to the alligators that were sunning themselves along the bank of the lake, which was still in play at the field.

But I digress…

The Yankees began their trek north, stopping in Knoxville, Tennessee and then on to Asheville, North Carolina for an exhibition game against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Before the game, at the train station, Ruth collapsed, and was stretchered to the Battery Park Hotel, to be administered to by a doctor.

Rumors swirled around the world, including one of Ruth’s demise, which brought about a lengthy and heartfelt obituary from a newspaper in London, England.

“The great pitcher has struck out Babe Ruth,” proclaimed the Evening News of London. “The death of the beloved and incomparable Bambino is a national calamity, for it wipes out the highest paid athlete in the world.” (5) The Belfast Telegraph followed suit, calling Ruth the ‘national hero of every schoolboy’ while explaining that his salary doubled that of the Prime Minister.

But the Babe was just dealing with a bit of indigestion. Or maybe I was something else. Some blamed the huge meal, which was a regular thing for Ruth, combined with a winding train ride through and over the Smoky Mountains for causing the Babe’s malaise. We may truly never know what the cause was.

Many have speculated about everything from ulcers, to the flu, to a venereal disease. This much is fact, however…the Yankees were without their powerhouse, Babe Ruth, for the first seven weeks of the season.

But he did make it back to the team, and had a decent season, but Far below his par. It was the only time in seventeen seasons that he failed to hit .300, finishing at .290. He did not lead the Yankees in home runs, that honor fell to Bob Meusel, and the Babe failed to drive in 100 runs for just the second time in his Yankee career.

Ruth had the second biggest batting average drop (at the time) falling from .378 in 1924 to .290 in 1925. (-.088 points)

But there were other things for the Yankees, as the stumbled to a seventh-place finish, the lowest finish in the Murderer’s Row era.

Shortstop Leo Durocher made his plying debut as a nineteen-year-old rookie.

Rookie outfielder Ben Paschal, who replaced Ruth in the early season, hit two inside-the-park homers in an 11-6 win over the Chicago White Sox. Remember this, we will need this later.

Earle Combs became the first Yankee rookie to reach 200 hits (the second was Joe DiMaggio in 1936)

And Babe did become the first player in American League history to hit a ‘walk-off’ Grand Slam Homerun, giving the Yankees a 1 run win over the White Sox in 10 innings.

In the early days of baseball, Everett Scott of the Red Sox, and then the Yankees established a consecutive-games playing streak of 1,307 games. That was the gold standard. On May 6^th, 1925, Yankees manager was not thrilled with the performance of the struggling shortstop, so he benched Scott in favor of rookie Paul ‘Pee Wee’ Wanninger, thus ending the record streak.

Everett Scott

Wanninger, the pride of Birmingham, Alabama, was a twenty-two-year-old infielder who worked his way up from the Augusta Tygers (named after Ty Cobb, believe it or not) where he hit a very respectable .296 in the SALLY League, which included a twenty-three-game hitting streak.

Pee Wee did a yeoman’s job for the Yankees, appearing in 117 games for the Yankees that season, his only season as a starter.

Paul "Pee Wee' Wanninger

But let’s go back to Everett Scott’s streak. We know that Yankee legend Lou Gehrig held the record for the longest consecutive games played streak with 2,130. But did you know that it was Scott’s record that he broke?

Maybe you did, but did you know Lou Gehrig began his streak on June 1^st, 1925. He entered the game as a pinch-hitter, for Pee Wee Wanninger.

Gehrig went hitless in his one at-bat. And then fate stepped in, with a Wally Pipp headache on the 2^nd, which gave Gehrig the start at first, game #2 in the 2130 game streak.

And it all started with a pinch-hit for the guy that ended Scott’s streak.

Back to Wanninger, who would be assigned to the St. Paul Saints of the American Association, where he would play all of the 1926 season, before being dealt to the Boston Red Sox. He appeared in just 18 games before being reassigned to St. Paul, but was then purchased by the Cincinnati Reds.

He wrote a cryptic note on a statistical recap of the 1927 season with Boston, saying “Son was born May 16, 1927- management would not permit me to go home so I quit.”

While with the Reds, he again played sparingly, and was returned to the Saints to finish the season. He never made it back to the majors.

He continued to play minor league ball, for St. Paul and then Louisville. In the winter of 1933, he was hired to manage the Knoxville Smokies of the Southern Association, but was let go by the club two days before the start of the season.

There was a cryptic note in the March 9, 1934 issue of the Knoxville News-Sentinel starting that Smokies owner Bob Allen had ‘ordered’ Wanninger to report to Florida for Spring Training by March 15^th.

Allen was further quoted in the March 15^th issue of the Knoxville Journal that he was “anxious to meet the new Smoky (sic) pilot. I’ve heard a lot about him. If he’s all reports will have you believe, Knoxville should have a fiery, capable leader”

On April 14^th, he was relieved of his managerial duties, and replaced by catcher Albert Head. According to the Knoxville News-Sentinel’s article of April 15^th, it said that Wanninger “…realized that he wasn’t cut out for a manager.” And that there were no hard feelings between the parties, who parted as friends, with the caveat that the Smokies would try to find a team for Wanninger.

Here's where it gets a bit more interesting…

On April 11^th, 1934, the New York Yankees returned to Knoxville on the way north to begin the season. There was a bit of one a rivalry between Knoxville and Chattanooga, who were owned by the colorful Joe Engel. The Yankees played his Lookouts in the afternoon, but Engel apparently held a big party at his house, with Ruth being invited, and tried to keep Babe from making the train, attempting make him unable to appear in Knoxville.

However, Ruth did arrive at Smithson Stadium to take part in the day’s festivities, even as his late arrival meant no time for the local newspapermen. And Ruth didn’t disappoint, send three straight line drives over the right field fence in batting practice, which were followed by the next two pitches sailing out by teammate Lou Gehrig.

The Yankees, behind future Hall of Fame starting pitcher Lefty Gomez earned an 8-4 victory over the hometown Smokies. While Ruth went hitless, and Gehrig had just one hit, it was Tony Lazzeri’s hitting that helped the Bombers. He hit two homers in the game.

According to the box score in the April 12^th Knoxville News-Sentinel, which for some reason left Ruth out of the box score, Pee Wee Wanninger started and second base, and went 0-1. But batting third for the Smokies was left-fielder Ban Paschal, the same Ben Paschal wo relaced Ruth in 1925, when Ruth was befallen with illness on the train ride between Knoxville and Asheville.

On, interestingly enough, it was the first time that the Yankees returned to that town since 1925.

I have looked, and have not been able to find a reason, but one can definitely speculate that having his former teammates playing his team had some impact on him, but perhaps I am wrong. It just seems odd that he would be relieved of his duties just 3 days after that game.

In an article on the SABR website, it references an argument between Wanninger and Smokies ownership.

Wanninger signed with the Milwaukee Brewers of the American Association. He appeared in 5 games, hitting .542 before he was released on May 10^th, and I could find no further reference on him for the rest of that season.

He returned to baseball where he played and managed in the Sally League and the Southeastern League from 1936 through 1941, when the was drafted into military service at thirty-nine. He was in the Army Air Force, where he was stationed in Denver, and managed several sports teams at Buckley Field.

He was one of those baseball lifers that you hear about…

Going back to Ben Paschal, sportswriter referred to him as “The Second Babe Ruth”, although he wound up being a back-up to Babe Ruth, Bob Muesel and Earle Coms in the Yankees outfield. He made his big-league debut with the Cleveland in 1915, but only appeared in 9 games before going back to the minors.

He ended up playing for the Charlotte Hornets of the Sally League in 1920, after sitting out with a badly broken leg in the 1917 season, and spent 4 years there, save for a nine-game stint with the Red Sox in 1920. He moved to the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association in 1924, earning a call-up to the Yankees for 4 games at the end of the season.

He made the roster in 1925, as mentioned, and did spend several years with the Yankees as a bench player. So much so that when the Yankees first began to wear uniform numbers, and they were initially based on players places in the batting order and pitching rotation, Paschall was issued number 25, for the 25^th man on the roster.

He remained in the Bronx until 1930, where he joined the St. Paul Saints of the American Association, where he was teammates of Mr. Wanninger once again. He was reportedly signed by the Smokies to provide power to the line-up, but mainly as a favor to Wanninger. But after Wanninger left the team, Paschal stayed for a little while, before moving to the Scranton Miners of the New York-Penn League.

After that season, he moved back to Charlotte, where he played and coached a semi-pro team.

Anyway, back to the season at hand. We’ll analyze the pitching first, beginning with the National League, who held a 2.6% statistical advantage over the American League.

Our initial top ten performers were:

Pitchers	Team	W-L	ERA	Svs
Dazzy Vance	Dodgers	22-9	3.53	0
Eppa Rixey	Reds	21-11	2.88	1
Art Reinhart	Cardinals	11-5	3.05	0
Pete Donohue	Reds	21-14	3.08	2
Dolph Luque	Reds	16-18	2.63	0
Bill Sherdel	Cardinals	15-6	3.11	1
Lee Meadows	Pirates	19-10	3.67	1
Jack Scott	Giants	14-15	3.15	3
Grover Cleveland Alexander	Cubs	15-11	3.39	0
Virgil Barnes	Giants	15-11	3.53	2

Dazzy Vance led the National League in strikeouts with 221, but only walked 66 batters. He also tied for the league lead in shutouts with 4.

Against their team’s performance, we get this list:

Dazzy Vance	Above
Art Reinhart	Above
Grover Alexander	Above
Larry Benton	Braves	14-7	3.09	1
Bill Sherdell	Above
Johnny Cooney	Braves	14-14	3.48	0
Wilbur Cooper	Cubs	12-14	4.28	0
Hal Carlson	Phillies	13-14	4.23	0
Eppa Rixey	Above
Pete Donohue	Above

So, in combining and analyzing, our top ten pitchers, with their post-season award performance, were:

Dazzy Vance	5^th in MVP vote
Art Reinhart	No votes
Eppa Rixey	No votes
Bill Sherdel	No votes
Pete Donohue	15^th in MVP vote (tie)
Dolph Luque	13^th in MVP vote
Grover Cleveland Alexander	No vote
Larry Benton	No vote
Johnny Cooney	No vote
Lee Meadows	No vote

Please note that during this time period, the players were voted based on their “great all-around service to his club”. Previous winners were no longer eligible for this award. And it was the only post-season award, with pitchers and hitters both eligible.

In the American League, our initial top ten pitching performers were:

Stan Coveleski	Washington	20-5	2.84	0
Walter Johnson	Washington	20-7	3.07	0
Sam Gray	A’s	16-8	3.27	3
Ted Lyons	White Sox	21-11	3.26	3
Ted Blankenship	White Sox	17-8	3.03	1
Dutch Ruether	Washington	18-7	3.87	0
Hooks Dauss	Tigers	16-11	3.16	1
Herb Pennock	Yankees	16-17	2.93	2
Slim Harriss	A’s	19-12	3.49	1
Dutch Leonard	Tigers	11-4	4.51	0

Against their teams, we get this next list:

Hooks Dauss	Above
Herb Pennock	Above
Ted Lyons	Above
Ted Blankenship	Above
Garland Buckeye	Indians	13-8	3.03	1
Stan Coveleski	Above
Walter Johnson	Above
Jake Miller	Indians	10-13	3.31	1
George Uhle	Indians	13-11	4.10	0
Dutch Leonard	Above

One of my favorite sports names appears on this list…Garland Buckeye. A left-handed pitcher who was born in Minnesota, not Ohio, as you would hope. He grew up in Illinois, and went to college in Indiana (Not IU, but Wabash College)

He was a two-sport star, playing both baseball and professional football. His great name belied in nominal sports career, but he had two great-grandsons who played in the major leagues, Drew and Stu Pomeranz.

But, back to the task at hand, where we compile the top ten American League pitchers overall:

Stan Coveleski	12^th in MVP vote (tie)
Walter Johnson	Previous winner
Ted Lyons	20^th in MVP vote
Sam Gray	No votes
Ted Blankenship	No votes
Hooks Dauss	No votes
Herb Pennock	21^st in MVP vote (tie)
Dutch Ruether	No vote
Garland Buckeye	No vote
Dutch Leonard	No vote

Now to the offense, beginning with the National League batters, our initial top ten performers were:

Player	Team	HR	RBI	AVG	RCG
Rogers Hornsby	Cardinals	39	143	.403	1.72
Kiki Cuyler	Pirates	18	102	.357	1.49
Jack Fournier	Dodgers	22	130	.350	1.43
Zack Wheat	Dodgers	14	103	.359	1.43
Jim Bottomley	Cardinals	21	128	.367	1.30
Pie Traynor	Pirates	6	106	.320	1.43
Ray Blades	Cardinals	12	57	.342	1.29
Clyde Barnhart	Pirates	4	114	.325	1.37
George Harper	Phillies	8	97	.344	1.33
Irish Muesel	Giants	21	11	.328	1.27

As stated earlier, Hornsby won the National League Triple Crown, and finished over .400 on the season. It reminded me of one of my favorite trivia questions…who was the last .400 hitter to win a World Series?

There has never been one.

Anyway, back to business. The top ten National League hitters as compared to their team’s averages are:

Rogers Hornsby	Above
Jack Fournier	Above
Irish Muesel	Above
Edd Roush	Reds	8	83	.339	1.24
Zack Wheat	Above
Mandy Brooks	Cubs	14	72	.281	1.26
Jim Bottomley	Above
George Harper	Above
Gabby Hartnett	Cubs	24	67	.289	0.89
Kiki Cuyler	Above

This will lead us to our top ten overall National League hitters:

Rogers Hornsby	National League MVP
Jack Fournier	No votes
Kiki Cuyler	2^nd in MVP vote
Zack Wheat	15^th in MVP vote
Jim Bottomley	7th in MVP vote
Irish Muesel	12^th in MVP vote
Ray Blades	No votes
George Harper	No votes
Pie Traynor	8^th in MVP vote
Edd Roush	No votes

The American League MVP was Roger Peckinpaugh of the American League champion Washington Senators. He finished with a respectable .292 batting average, and had a respectable .952 fielding percentage, where he made 28 errors.

If you like the WAR statistic, or Wins Against Replacement, Peckinpaugh finished 9^th best on the Washington roster, with a 2. WAR, which was just the tenth highest WAR mark in his career, and remains the lowest WAR of any other American League Most Valuable Player Award winner.

He was told of his winning the award before the first game of the Series, and as I mentioned earlier, proceeded to make a record eight errors in the seven games, establishing a dubious record. According to a year-end review by John H. Foster in the South Bend Tribune, it was decided going forward that the award announcements would now be announced at the conclusion of post-season play.

He is the first shortstop to have won the MVP Award, and he was considered one of the finest fielders in his day. But his day had passed by the 1925 season. In fact, it would be the last full season he would play, becoming a part time player in 1926, and then retire from playing after the 1927 season.

He was noted for his baseball acumen, and was looked at as Bucky Harris’ ‘assistant manager’ during their time together in Washington, which netted 2 World Series appearances and 1 World Championship.

He took over as manager of the Yankees at the end of the 1914 season, but that lasted twenty games. After he retired, he took the helm of the Cleveland Indians, and managed them from 1928 through the first part of the 1933 season, never finishing higher than 3^rd on the season. He returned to the Indians in 1941 for one season.

With that being said, since he doesn’t appear in either of the following lists. Here are the initial American League top ten players:

Ty Cobb	Tigers	12	102	.378	1.55
Ken Williams	Browns	25	105	.331	1.60
Al Simmons	A’s	24	129	.387	1.48
Harry Heilmann	Tigers	13	134	.393	1.45
Tris Speaker	Indians	12	87	.389	1.32
Goose Goslin	Senators	18	113	.334	1.41
Al Wingo	Tigers	5	68	.370	1.28
Eddie Collins	White Sox	3	80	.346	1.33
Harry Rice	Browns	11	47	.359	1.19
Bob Muesel	Yankees	33	143	.290	1.29

And as compared to their teams, we get this top ten list:

Bob Muesel	Above
Ben Paschall	Yankees	12	55	.360	1.03
Tris Speaker	Above
Ken Williams	Above
Earle Combs	Yankees	3	62	.341	1.17
Al Simmons	Above
Ty Cobb	Above
Babe Ruth	Yankees	25	67	.290	1.05
Ike Boone	Red Sox	9	68	.330	1.04
Harry Heilmann	Above

And we then reach our final overall top ten American League hitters as such:

Ken Williams	No votes
Ty Cobb	No votes
Al Simmons	2^nd in MVP vote
Harry Heilmann	4^th in MVP vote
Tris Speaker	No votes
Goose Goslin	No votes
Bob Muesel	18^th in MVP vote (tie)
Eddie Collins	No votes
Al Wingo	12^th in MVP vote (tie)
Harry Rice	5^th in MVP vote