Top 25 Home Runs in 1981 in the American League

Home Runs : 1981 American League Top 25

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"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)

1981 Home Runs Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Home Runs Team Rank

Tony Armas 22 Oakland Athletics 1

Dwight Evans 22 Boston Red Sox

Bobby Grich 22 California Angels

Eddie Murray 22 Baltimore Orioles

Greg Luzinski 21 Chicago White Sox 5

Gorman Thomas 21 Milwaukee Brewers

Willie Aikens 17 Kansas City Royals 7

Don Baylor 17 California Angels

Cliff Johnson 17 Oakland Athletics

John Mayberry 17 Toronto Blue Jays

Jim Rice 17 Boston Red Sox

Richie Zisk 16 Seattle Mariners 12

Dan Ford 15 California Angels 13

Reggie Jackson 15 New York Yankees

Dwayne Murphy 15 Oakland Athletics

Graig Nettles 15 New York Yankees

Ben Oglivie 14 Milwaukee Brewers 17

Tom Paciorek 14 Seattle Mariners

Ted Simmons 14 Milwaukee Brewers

Doug DeCinces 13 Baltimore Orioles 20

Gary Gray 13 Seattle Mariners

Ken Singleton 13 Baltimore Orioles

Dave Winfield 13 New York Yankees

Cecil Cooper 12 Milwaukee Brewers 24

Otto Velez 11 Toronto Blue Jays 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.

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?

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).

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