1971 Games Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Games	Team	Rank
Ken Sanders	83	Milwaukee Brewers	1
Fred Scherman	69	Detroit Tigers	2
Tom Burgmeier	67	Kansas City Royals	3
Ted Abernathy	63	Kansas City Royals	4
Eddie Fisher	57	California Angels	5
Phil Hennigan	57	Cleveland Indians
Denny Riddleberger	57	Washington Senators
Dave LaRoche	56	California Angels	8
Horacio Pina	56	Washington Senators
Darold Knowles	55	Washington Senators	10
		Oakland Athletics
Lloyd Allen	54	California Angels	11
Casey Cox	54	Washington Senators
Steve Kealey	54	Chicago White Sox
Steve Mingori	54	Cleveland Indians
Bart Johnson	53	Chicago White Sox	15
Jim York	53	Kansas City Royals
Bobby Bolin	52	Boston Red Sox	17
Ray Corbin	52	Minnesota Twins
Tom Timmermann	52	Detroit Tigers
Paul Lindblad	51	Oakland Athletics	20
		Washington Senators
Vince Colbert	50	Cleveland Indians	21
Sparky Lyle	50	Boston Red Sox
Rollie Fingers	48	Oakland Athletics	23
Tom Hall	48	Minnesota Twins
Bill Lee	47	Boston Red Sox	25
Name	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. 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 first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.