Strikeouts : 1920 American League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)
 

1920 Strikeouts Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Stan Coveleski 133 Cleveland Indians 1
Lefty Williams 128 Chicago White Sox 2
Bob Shawkey 126 New York Yankees 3
Red Faber 108 Chicago White Sox 4
Urban Shocker 107 St. Louis Browns 5
Doc Ayers 103 Detroit Tigers 6
Jack Quinn 101 New York Yankees 7
Howard Ehmke 98 Detroit Tigers 8
Carl Mays 92 New York Yankees 9
Rollie Naylor 90 Philadelphia Athletics 10
Joe Bush 88 Boston Red Sox 11
Jim Shaw 88 Washington Senators  
Eddie Cicotte 87 Chicago White Sox 13
Eric Erickson 87 Washington Senators  
Sam Jones 86 Boston Red Sox 15
Dixie Davis 85 St. Louis Browns 16
Hooks Dauss 82 Detroit Tigers 17
Allen Sothoron 81 St. Louis Browns 18
Ray Caldwell 80 Cleveland Indians 19
Scott Perry 79 Philadelphia Athletics 20
Walter Johnson 78 Washington Senators 21
Dutch Leonard 76 Detroit Tigers 22
Jim Bagby 73 Cleveland Indians 23
Dickey Kerr 72 Chicago White Sox 24
Guy Morton 72 Cleveland Indians  



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.

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).