Runs : 1951 American League Top 25

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"When you're playing 162 baseball games, you're playing almost every day, it's nice to have a guy (Jose Lima) like that around to lighten things up and have fun. It's a huge plus for us." - Detroit Tigers Pitcher Matt Anderson
 

1951 Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Dom DiMaggio 113 Boston Red Sox 1
Minnie Minoso 112 Cleveland Indians 2
Chicago White Sox  
Ted Williams 109 Boston Red Sox 3
Eddie Yost 109 Washington Senators  
Eddie Joost 107 Philadelphia Athletics 5
Nellie Fox 93 Chicago White Sox 6
Johnny Pesky 93 Boston Red Sox  
Yogi Berra 92 New York Yankees 8
Billy Goodman 92 Boston Red Sox  
George Kell 92 Detroit Tigers  
Gus Zernial 92 Chicago White Sox  
Philadelphia Athletics  
Phil Rizzuto 87 New York Yankees 12
Vic Wertz 86 Detroit Tigers 13
Gil Coan 85 Washington Senators 14
Eddie Robinson 85 Chicago White Sox  
Larry Doby 84 Cleveland Indians 16
Dale Mitchell 83 Cleveland Indians 17
Irv Noren 82 Washington Senators 18
Al Rosen 82 Cleveland Indians  
Bobby Avila 76 Cleveland Indians 20
Elmer Valo 75 Philadelphia Athletics 21
Bobby Young 75 St. Louis Browns  
Jerry Priddy 73 Detroit Tigers 23
Joe DiMaggio 72 New York Yankees 24
Gil McDougald 72 New York Yankees  



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).

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.