Top 25 Complete Games in 1978 in the American League

Complete Games : 1978 American League Top 25

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"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)

1978 Complete Games Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Complete Games Team Rank

Mike Caldwell 23 Milwaukee Brewers 1

Dennis Leonard 20 Kansas City Royals 2

Jim Palmer 19 Baltimore Orioles 3

Jon Matlack 18 Texas Rangers 4

Mike Flanagan 17 Baltimore Orioles 5

Lary Sorensen 17 Milwaukee Brewers

Dennis Eckersley 16 Boston Red Sox 7

Ron Guidry 16 New York Yankees

Fergie Jenkins 16 Texas Rangers

Milt Wilcox 16 Detroit Tigers

Dennis Martinez 15 Baltimore Orioles 11

Mike Torrez 15 Boston Red Sox

Rick Waits 15 Cleveland Indians

Roger Erickson 14 Minnesota Twins 14

Nolan Ryan 14 California Angels

Dave Goltz 13 Minnesota Twins 16

Scott McGregor 13 Baltimore Orioles

Paul Splittorff 13 Kansas City Royals

Ed Figueroa 12 New York Yankees 19

Luis Tiant 12 Boston Red Sox

Geoff Zahn 12 Minnesota Twins

Dave Rozema 11 Detroit Tigers 22

Jim Slaton 11 Detroit Tigers

Jack Billingham 10 Detroit Tigers 24

Frank Tanana 10 California Angels

Name Complete Games Team Rank

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.

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.

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.

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