Runs : 1914 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)
 

1914 Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Eddie Collins 122 Philadelphia Athletics 1
Eddie Murphy 101 Philadelphia Athletics 2
Tris Speaker 101 Boston Red Sox  
Donie Bush 97 Detroit Tigers 4
Harry Hooper 85 Boston Red Sox 5
Del Pratt 85 St. Louis Browns  
Frank Baker 84 Philadelphia Athletics 7
Danny Moeller 83 Washington Senators 8
Eddie Foster 82 Washington Senators 9
Burt Shotton 82 St. Louis Browns  
Fritz Maisel 78 New York Yankees 11
Sam Crawford 74 Detroit Tigers 12
Stuffy McInnis 74 Philadelphia Athletics  
Ty Cobb 69 Detroit Tigers 14
Rube Oldring 68 Philadelphia Athletics 15
Tilly Walker 67 St. Louis Browns 16
Everett Scott 66 Boston Red Sox 17
Hal Janvrin 65 Boston Red Sox 18
Buck Weaver 64 Chicago White Sox 19
Ray Demmitt 63 Detroit Tigers 20
Chicago White Sox  
Jack Graney 63 Cleveland Naps  
Clyde Milan 63 Washington Senators  
Shano Collins 61 Chicago White Sox 23
Joe Jackson 61 Cleveland Naps  
Marty Kavanagh 60 Detroit Tigers 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.

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.