Games : 1946 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:

"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)
 

1946 Games Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Bob Feller 48 Cleveland Indians 1
Dave Ferriss 40 Boston Red Sox 2
Bob Savage 40 Philadelphia Athletics  
Earl Caldwell 39 Chicago White Sox 4
Tex Hughson 39 Boston Red Sox  
Dizzy Trout 38 Detroit Tigers 6
Hal Newhouser 37 Detroit Tigers 7
Phil Marchildon 36 Philadelphia Athletics 8
Sam Zoldak 35 St. Louis Browns 9
Spud Chandler 34 New York Yankees 10
Stan Ferens 34 St. Louis Browns  
Tom Ferrick 34 Cleveland Indians  
St. Louis Browns  
Lum Harris 34 Philadelphia Athletics  
Mickey Harris 34 Boston Red Sox  
Bobo Newsom 34 Philadelphia Athletics  
Washington Senators  
Orval Grove 33 Chicago White Sox 16
Randy Gumpert 33 New York Yankees  
Mickey Haefner 33 Washington Senators  
Ellis Kinder 33 St. Louis Browns  
Joe Dobson 32 Boston Red Sox 20
Dick Fowler 32 Philadelphia Athletics  
Joe Haynes 32 Chicago White Sox  
Bob Lemon 32 Cleveland Indians  
Ray Scarborough 32 Washington Senators  
Virgil Trucks 32 Detroit Tigers  



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.

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).

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?