Runs : 1905 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)
 

1905 Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Harry Davis 93 Philadelphia Athletics 1
Fielder Jones 91 Chicago White Sox 2
Harry Bay 90 Cleveland Naps 3
Topsy Hartsel 88 Philadelphia Athletics 4
Willie Keeler 81 New York Highlanders 5
Jesse Burkett 78 Boston Americans 6
George Stone 76 St. Louis Browns 7
George Davis 74 Chicago White Sox 8
Sam Crawford 73 Detroit Tigers 9
Elmer Flick 72 Cleveland Naps 10
Jiggs Donahue 71 Chicago White Sox 11
Danny Murphy 71 Philadelphia Athletics  
Lave Cross 69 Philadelphia Athletics 13
Charlie Hickman 69 Detroit Tigers  
Washington Senators  
Charlie Jones 68 Washington Senators 15
Joe Cassidy 67 Washington Senators 16
Bobby Wallace 67 St. Louis Browns  
Jimmy Collins 66 Boston Americans 18
Danny Hoffman 66 Philadelphia Athletics  
Jake Stahl 66 Washington Senators  
Germany Schaefer 64 Detroit Tigers 21
Socks Seybold 64 Philadelphia Athletics  
Bill Bradley 63 Cleveland Naps 23
John Anderson 62 New York Highlanders 24
Washington Senators  
Chick Stahl 61 Boston Americans 25



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.

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.