1933 Strikeouts Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Strikeouts	Team	Rank
Lefty Gomez	163	New York Yankees	1
Bump Hadley	149	St. Louis Browns	2
Red Ruffing	122	New York Yankees	3
Tommy Bridges	120	Detroit Tigers	4
Johnny Allen	119	New York Yankees	5
Lefty Grove	114	Philadelphia Athletics	6
Alvin Crowder	110	Washington Senators	7
Bob Weiland	97	Boston Red Sox	8
Earl Whitehill	96	Washington Senators	9
Carl Fischer	93	Detroit Tigers	10
Oral Hildebrand	90	Cleveland Indians	11
Gordon Rhodes	85	Boston Red Sox	12
Firpo Marberry	84	Detroit Tigers	13
Mel Harder	81	Cleveland Indians	14
Russ Van Atta	76	New York Yankees	15
Schoolboy Rowe	75	Detroit Tigers	16
Vic Sorrell	75	Detroit Tigers
Ted Lyons	74	Chicago White Sox	18
George Pipgras	70	New York Yankees	19
		Boston Red Sox
Lefty Stewart	69	Washington Senators	20
Rube Walberg	68	Philadelphia Athletics	21
Johnny Welch	68	Boston Red Sox
Roy Mahaffey	66	Philadelphia Athletics	23
Ed Durham	65	Chicago White Sox	24
Hank Johnson	65	Boston Red Sox
Name	Strikeouts	Team	Rank

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