Games : 1938 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
 

1938 Games Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Johnny Humphries 45 Cleveland Indians 1
Bobo Newsom 44 St. Louis Browns 2
Pete Appleton 43 Washington Senators 3
Jim Bagby 43 Boston Red Sox  
Eddie Smith 43 Philadelphia Athletics  
George Caster 42 Philadelphia Athletics 6
Harry Kelley 42 Philadelphia Athletics  
Washington Senators  
Bud Thomas 42 Philadelphia Athletics  
Slick Coffman 39 Detroit Tigers 9
Bob Feller 39 Cleveland Indians  
Mel Harder 38 Cleveland Indians 11
Johnny Rigney 38 Chicago White Sox  
Archie McKain 37 Boston Red Sox 13
Jack Wilson 37 Boston Red Sox  
Ed Cole 36 St. Louis Browns 15
Denny Galehouse 36 Cleveland Indians  
Nels Potter 35 Philadelphia Athletics 17
Vern Kennedy 33 Detroit Tigers 18
Thornton Lee 33 Chicago White Sox  
Dutch Leonard 33 Washington Senators  
Ken Chase 32 Washington Senators 21
Emerson Dickman 32 Boston Red Sox  
Harry Eisenstat 32 Detroit Tigers  
Lefty Gomez 32 New York Yankees  
Johnny Murphy 32 New York Yankees  



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.

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

The most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?