Runs : 1903 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)
 

1903 Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Patsy Dougherty 107 Boston Americans 1
Bill Bradley 101 Cleveland Blues 2
Jimmy Barrett 95 Detroit Tigers 3
Willie Keeler 95 New York Highlanders  
Harry Bay 94 Cleveland Blues 5
Ollie Pickering 93 Philadelphia Athletics 6
Nap Lajoie 90 Cleveland Blues 7
Jimmy Collins 88 Boston Americans 8
Sam Crawford 88 Detroit Tigers  
Freddy Parent 83 Boston Americans 10
Elmer Flick 81 Cleveland Blues 11
Kid Elberfeld 78 Detroit Tigers 12
New York Highlanders  
Harry Davis 77 Philadelphia Athletics 13
Socks Seybold 76 Philadelphia Athletics 14
Danny Green 75 Chicago White Stockings 15
Wid Conroy 74 New York Highlanders 16
Buck Freeman 74 Boston Americans  
Jesse Burkett 73 St. Louis Browns 18
Fielder Jones 71 Chicago White Stockings 19
Billy Lush 71 Detroit Tigers  
Hobe Ferris 69 Boston Americans 21
Kip Selbach 68 Washington Senators 22
Ducky Holmes 66 Washington Senators 23
Chicago White Stockings  
Danny Murphy 66 Philadelphia Athletics  
John Anderson 65 St. Louis Browns 25



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.

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).

Did you know that more than forty players have worn the number twenty-five for the Boston Red Sox — including Jack Clark, Denny Galehouse, Dizzy Trout and Tony Conigliaro.