Top 25 Strikeouts in 1965 in the National League

Strikeouts : 1965 National 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)

1965 Strikeouts Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Strikeouts Team Rank

Sandy Koufax 382 Los Angeles Dodgers 1

Bob Veale 276 Pittsburgh Pirates 2

Bob Gibson 270 St. Louis Cardinals 3

Jim Bunning 268 Philadelphia Phillies 4

Jim Maloney 244 Cincinnati Reds 5

Juan Marichal 240 San Francisco Giants 6

Chris Short 237 Philadelphia Phillies 7

Tony Cloninger 211 Milwaukee Braves 8

Don Drysdale 210 Los Angeles Dodgers 9

Sammy Ellis 183 Cincinnati Reds 10

Gaylord Perry 170 San Francisco Giants 11

Claude Osteen 162 Los Angeles Dodgers 12

Ken Johnson 151 Houston Astros 13

Milwaukee Braves

Bob Shaw 148 San Francisco Giants 14

Bob Bruce 145 Houston Astros 15

Bobby Bolin 135 San Francisco Giants 16

Ray Culp 134 Philadelphia Phillies 17

Larry Jackson 131 Chicago Cubs 18

Dick Ellsworth 130 Chicago Cubs 19

Turk Farrell 122 Houston Astros 20

Ray Sadecki 122 St. Louis Cardinals

Al Jackson 120 New York Mets 22

Billy McCool 120 Cincinnati Reds

Wade Blasingame 117 Milwaukee Braves 24

Joe Nuxhall 117 Cincinnati Reds

Name Strikeouts 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.

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.

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?

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