1932 Strikeouts Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Strikeouts	Team	Rank
Red Ruffing	190	New York Yankees	1
Lefty Grove	188	Philadelphia Athletics	2
Lefty Gomez	176	New York Yankees	3
Bump Hadley	145	Chicago White Sox	4
		St. Louis Browns
George Pipgras	111	New York Yankees	5
Johnny Allen	109	New York Yankees	6
George Earnshaw	109	Philadelphia Athletics
Tommy Bridges	108	Detroit Tigers	8
Roy Mahaffey	106	Philadelphia Athletics	9
Wes Ferrell	105	Cleveland Indians	10
Alvin Crowder	103	Washington Senators	11
Rube Walberg	96	Philadelphia Athletics	12
Mel Harder	90	Cleveland Indians	13
Lefty Stewart	86	St. Louis Browns	14
Vic Sorrell	84	Detroit Tigers	15
Monte Weaver	83	Washington Senators	16
Whit Wyatt	82	Detroit Tigers	17
Earl Whitehill	81	Detroit Tigers	18
George Blaeholder	80	St. Louis Browns	19
Sam Gray	79	St. Louis Browns	20
Firpo Marberry	66	Washington Senators	21
Willis Hudlin	65	Cleveland Indians	22
Sam Jones	64	Chicago White Sox	23
Bob Weiland	63	Boston Red Sox	24
Danny MacFayden	62	Boston Red Sox	25
		New York Yankees
Name	Strikeouts	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. 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). The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.