Doubles : 1999 American League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"When you're playing 162 baseball games, you're playing almost every day, it's nice to have a guy (Jose Lima) like that around to lighten things up and have fun. It's a huge plus for us." - Detroit Tigers Pitcher Matt Anderson
 

1999 Doubles Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Shawn Green 45 Toronto Blue Jays 1
Jermaine Dye 44 Kansas City Royals 2
Mike Sweeney 44 Kansas City Royals  
Nomar Garciaparra 42 Boston Red Sox 4
Tony Fernandez 41 Toronto Blue Jays 5
Rusty Greer 41 Texas Rangers  
Todd Zeile 41 Texas Rangers  
Roberto Alomar 40 Cleveland Indians 8
Johnny Damon 39 Kansas City Royals 9
Carlos Delgado 39 Toronto Blue Jays  
Paul O'Neill 39 New York Yankees  
Jason Varitek 39 Boston Red Sox  
B.J. Surhoff 38 Baltimore Orioles 13
Derek Jeter 37 New York Yankees 14
Jose Offerman 37 Boston Red Sox  
Todd Walker 37 Minnesota Twins  
Garret Anderson 36 Anaheim Angels 17
Albert Belle 36 Baltimore Orioles  
Jason Giambi 36 Oakland Athletics  
Juan Gonzalez 36 Texas Rangers  
Chuck Knoblauch 36 New York Yankees  
Troy O'Leary 36 Boston Red Sox  
Joe Randa 36 Kansas City Royals  
Frank Thomas 36 Chicago White Sox  
Omar Vizquel 36 Cleveland Indians  



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.

Did you know that more than forty players have worn the number twenty-five for the Boston Red Sox — including Jack Clark, Denny Galehouse, Dizzy Trout and Tony Conigliaro.

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