2001 Hits Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Hits	Team	Rank
Ichiro Suzuki	242	Seattle Mariners	1
Bret Boone	206	Seattle Mariners	2
Shannon Stewart	202	Toronto Blue Jays	3
Alex Rodriguez	201	Texas Rangers	4
Garret Anderson	194	Anaheim Angels	5
Roberto Alomar	193	Cleveland Indians	6
Derek Jeter	191	New York Yankees	7
Carlos Beltran	189	Kansas City Royals	8
Magglio Ordonez	181	Chicago White Sox	9
Jason Giambi	178	Oakland Athletics	10
Terrence Long	178	Oakland Athletics
Juan Gonzalez	173	Cleveland Indians	12
John Olerud	173	Seattle Mariners
Mike Sweeney	170	Kansas City Royals	14
Jermaine Dye	169	Kansas City Royals	15
		Oakland Athletics
David Eckstein	166	Anaheim Angels	16
Doug Mientkiewicz	166	Minnesota Twins
Miguel Tejada	166	Oakland Athletics
Bernie Williams	166	New York Yankees
Johnny Damon	165	Oakland Athletics	20
Tino Martinez	165	New York Yankees
Paul Konerko	164	Chicago White Sox	22
Rafael Palmeiro	164	Texas Rangers
Jeff Conine	163	Baltimore Orioles	24
Ray Durham	163	Chicago White Sox
Name	Hits	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. The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.