1940 Triples Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Triples	Team	Rank
Barney McCosky	19	Detroit Tigers	1
Lou Finney	15	Boston Red Sox	2
Charlie Keller	15	New York Yankees
Ted Williams	14	Boston Red Sox	4
Luke Appling	13	Chicago White Sox	5
Doc Cramer	12	Boston Red Sox	6
Cecil Travis	11	Washington Senators	7
Roy Weatherly	11	Cleveland Indians
Lou Boudreau	10	Cleveland Indians	9
Bobby Doerr	10	Boston Red Sox
Joe Gordon	10	New York Yankees
Ken Keltner	10	Cleveland Indians
Mike Kreevich	10	Chicago White Sox
Buddy Lewis	10	Washington Senators
George McQuinn	10	St. Louis Browns
Joe DiMaggio	9	New York Yankees	16
Wally Moses	9	Philadelphia Athletics
Rip Radcliff	9	St. Louis Browns
Taffy Wright	9	Chicago White Sox
Jimmy Bloodworth	8	Washington Senators	20
Hank Greenberg	8	Detroit Tigers
Joe Kuhel	8	Chicago White Sox
Wally Judnich	7	St. Louis Browns	23
Gee Walker	7	Washington Senators
Ben Chapman	6	Cleveland Indians	25
Name	Triples	Team	Rank

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