Complete Games : 1901 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:

"The baseball season - six months & 2,106 games - is flat out long, and it's a rare one of those games that doesn't ramble or sputter or digress or somehow violate the rules of dramatic narrative. Baseball takes its own sweet time reaching its conclusions." - Dwight Allen in Reds, Yanks and O's (1989)
 

1901 Complete Games Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Joe McGinnity 39 Baltimore Orioles 1
Cy Young 38 Boston Americans 2
Chick Fraser 35 Philadelphia Athletics 3
Roscoe Miller 35 Detroit Tigers  
Bill Carrick 34 Washington Senators 5
Harry Howell 32 Baltimore Orioles 6
Pete Dowling 31 Milwaukee Brewers 7
Cleveland Blues  
Ted Lewis 31 Boston Americans  
Roy Patterson 30 Chicago White Stockings 9
Ed Siever 30 Detroit Tigers  
Earl Moore 28 Cleveland Blues 11
Eddie Plank 28 Philadelphia Athletics  
Bill Reidy 28 Milwaukee Brewers  
Bill Bernhard 26 Philadelphia Athletics 14
Clark Griffith 26 Chicago White Stockings  
Case Patten 26 Washington Senators  
George Winter 26 Boston Americans  
Watty Lee 25 Washington Senators 18
Ned Garvin 22 Milwaukee Brewers 19
Joe Yeager 22 Detroit Tigers  
Jack Cronin 21 Detroit Tigers 21
Nixey Callahan 20 Chicago White Stockings 22
Frank Foreman 19 Boston Americans 23
Baltimore Orioles  
Bert Husting 19 Milwaukee Brewers  
Jack Katoll 19 Chicago White Stockings  



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

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).

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.