Runs : 1945 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)
 

1945 Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Snuffy Stirnweiss 107 New York Yankees 1
Vern Stephens 90 St. Louis Browns 2
Roy Cullenbine 83 Cleveland Indians 3
Detroit Tigers  
Eddie Lake 81 Boston Red Sox 4
George Myatt 81 Washington Senators  
Mickey Rocco 81 Cleveland Indians  
Wally Moses 79 Chicago White Sox 7
Nick Etten 77 New York Yankees 8
Johnny Dickshot 74 Chicago White Sox 9
Joe Kuhel 73 Washington Senators 10
George Case 72 Washington Senators 11
Don Gutteridge 72 St. Louis Browns  
Bob Johnson 71 Boston Red Sox 13
Eddie Mayo 71 Detroit Tigers  
Dutch Meyer 71 Cleveland Indians  
Rudy York 71 Detroit Tigers  
George McQuinn 69 St. Louis Browns 17
Catfish Metkovich 65 Boston Red Sox 18
Oscar Grimes 64 New York Yankees 19
Bud Metheny 64 New York Yankees  
George Binks 62 Washington Senators 21
Doc Cramer 62 Detroit Tigers  
Irv Hall 62 Philadelphia Athletics  
Dick Siebert 62 Philadelphia Athletics  
Jeff Heath 60 Cleveland Indians 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.

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

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).