1961 Home Runs Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Home Runs	Team	Rank
Roger Maris	61	New York Yankees	1
Mickey Mantle	54	New York Yankees	2
Jim Gentile	46	Baltimore Orioles	3
Harmon Killebrew	46	Minnesota Twins
Rocky Colavito	45	Detroit Tigers	5
Norm Cash	41	Detroit Tigers	6
Bob Allison	29	Minnesota Twins	7
Bill Skowron	28	New York Yankees	8
Al Smith	28	Chicago White Sox
Leon Wagner	28	Los Angeles Angels
Willie Kirkland	27	Cleveland Indians	11
Roy Sievers	27	Chicago White Sox
Ken Hunt	25	Los Angeles Angels	13
Lee Thomas	24	New York Yankees	14
		Los Angeles Angels
Woodie Held	23	Cleveland Indians	15
Yogi Berra	22	New York Yankees	16
Jim Landis	22	Chicago White Sox
Earl Averill	21	Los Angeles Angels	18
Johnny Blanchard	21	New York Yankees
Elston Howard	21	New York Yankees
Johnny Romano	21	Cleveland Indians
Steve Bilko	20	Los Angeles Angels	22
Al Kaline	19	Detroit Tigers	23
Gary Geiger	18	Boston Red Sox	24
Gene Green	18	Washington Senators
Name	Home Runs	Team	Rank

	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. 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).