The battle for the top hitter in the AAA is going down to the wire in the American League. It has been decided for quite some time in the National as Pie Traynor of the Pirates has a 50 point lead. He is a cinch to take it with a .367 average going into the last 4 games of the season. Bill Terry of the Giants and Zach Wheat of the Dodgers are a very distant second with .316 batting averages.
Only one point separates the top 3 hitters in the American League. Joe Jackson of Chicago and George Sisler of St. Louis are tied at .336 with Ty Cobb of Detroit at .335 in third place.
Cobb is ahead in hits with 204. Sisler and Jackson come in with 202 and 199 respectively.
Hank Greenberg of Detroit has 50 doubles, 4 ahead of the A's Al Simmons.
Cobb is easily the triples winner with 14, 5 in front of his runner-ups.
Babe Ruth of the Yanks is tops in home runs with 34, up by 2 over Frank Thomas of Chicago.
Lou Gehrig of NY has a comfortable lead in rbis over Hank Greenberg, 113 to 107. Frank Thomas has 106.
Greenberg is number one in runs scored, 107 to 100 over Cobb.
Cobb has 67 stolen bases to Athletics' Rickey Henderson's 63.
In base on balls Ruth is in front of the Bosox Ted Williams 92 to 86.
In the pitching categories Ed Cicotte of Chicago has 18 wins, one up on Ron Guidry of New York.
Mariano Rivera leads in saves 14 to 11 over Boston's Dick Radatz and Chicago's Bobby Thigpen.
Bob Feller of Cleveland leads his teammate Herb Score in strikeouts, 205 to 186.
The ERA leaders are Vida Blue of Philadelphia with 2.54, Score 2.83 and Lefty Gomez of the Yanks at 2.84.
The one with the most hits in the National League is Barry Bonds of the Giants with 199. Chick Hafey of St. Louis and Zach Wheat of Brooklyn trail with 193 and 192.
The doubles leader in the NL is the Cards' Chick Hafey with 52 to Wheat's 46.
In triples Honus Wagner of Pittsburgh and Barry Bonds of NY are deadlocked with 15 each.
Ernie Banks of the Cubs is the NL HR leader with 31 to Bonds 29 and the Phillies' Chuck Klein's 27.
Bonds is at the top in rbis with 98. Frank Robinson of Cincy and Klein have driven in 96 apiece.
Bonds is number one in runs with 96. In second are Stan Musial of St. Louis and Wheat with 90 each.
Jackie Robinson of the Dodgers is the best basestealer with a 32 to 29 margin over Rafael Furcal of the Braves.
Bond is far and away the best at getting walked. He has 89 on the year. Mel Ott of the Giants and Mike Schmidt of Philadelphia have only 59 each.
In the pitching categories in the National League, Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance and the Cubs' Mordecai Brown each have 19 victories, one more than the Phils' Pete Alexander.
In the saves department, it is a three-way tussle. Rob Nen of New York and Roy Face of the Pirates are tied for first with 9. Todd Worrell of the Cardinals is one back with 8.
Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers leads in strikeouts, 190 to 178 over his teammate Dazzy Vance.
Pete Alexander of the Phils is the best with a 2.24 ERA, followed by the Giants' Carl Hubbell at 2.34 and Mordecai Brown of Chicago at 2.49.
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