1945 Home Runs Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Home Runs	Team	Rank
Vern Stephens	24	St. Louis Browns	1
Roy Cullenbine	18	Cleveland Indians	2
		Detroit Tigers
Nick Etten	18	New York Yankees
Rudy York	18	Detroit Tigers
Jeff Heath	15	Cleveland Indians	5
Pat Seerey	14	Cleveland Indians	6
Russ Derry	13	New York Yankees	7
Hank Greenberg	13	Detroit Tigers
Bob Johnson	12	Boston Red Sox	9
Eddie Lake	11	Boston Red Sox	10
Charlie Keller	10	New York Yankees	11
Eddie Mayo	10	Detroit Tigers
Mickey Rocco	10	Cleveland Indians
Snuffy Stirnweiss	10	New York Yankees
Frankie Hayes	9	Philadelphia Athletics	15
		Cleveland Indians
Milt Byrnes	8	St. Louis Browns	16
Harlond Clift	8	Washington Senators
Bobby Estalella	8	Philadelphia Athletics
Bud Metheny	8	New York Yankees
Aaron Robinson	8	New York Yankees
Hersh Martin	7	New York Yankees	21
George McQuinn	7	St. Louis Browns
Dutch Meyer	7	Cleveland Indians
Dick Siebert	7	Philadelphia Athletics
George Binks	6	Washington Senators	25
Name	Home Runs	Team	Rank

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