Games : 1940 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)
 

1940 Games Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Bob Feller 43 Cleveland Indians 1
Al Benton 42 Detroit Tigers 2
Ed Heusser 41 Philadelphia Athletics 3
Jack Wilson 41 Boston Red Sox  
Joe Dobson 40 Cleveland Indians 5
Joe Heving 39 Boston Red Sox 6
Johnny Rigney 39 Chicago White Sox  
Elden Auker 38 St. Louis Browns 8
Sid Hudson 38 Washington Senators  
Clint Brown 37 Chicago White Sox 10
Al Milnar 37 Cleveland Indians  
Jim Bagby 36 Boston Red Sox 12
George Caster 36 Philadelphia Athletics  
Bobo Newsom 36 Detroit Tigers  
Bill Trotter 36 St. Louis Browns  
Ken Chase 35 Washington Senators 16
Emerson Dickman 35 Boston Red Sox  
Bob Harris 35 St. Louis Browns  
Dutch Leonard 35 Washington Senators  
Johnny Murphy 35 New York Yankees  
Bill Beckmann 34 Philadelphia Athletics 21
Herb Hash 34 Boston Red Sox  
Vern Kennedy 34 St. Louis Browns  
Dizzy Trout 33 Detroit Tigers 24
Johnny Allen 32 Cleveland Indians 25



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 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?

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