Runs : 1962 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)
 

1962 Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Albie Pearson 115 Los Angeles Angels 1
Norm Siebern 114 Kansas City Athletics 2
Bob Allison 102 Minnesota Twins 3
Bobby Richardson 99 New York Yankees 4
Carl Yastrzemski 99 Boston Red Sox  
Lenny Green 97 Minnesota Twins 6
Mickey Mantle 96 New York Yankees 7
Rich Rollins 96 Minnesota Twins  
Leon Wagner 96 Los Angeles Angels  
Norm Cash 94 Detroit Tigers 10
Tom Tresh 94 New York Yankees  
Roger Maris 92 New York Yankees 12
Joe Cunningham 91 Chicago White Sox 13
Bill Bruton 90 Detroit Tigers 14
Rocky Colavito 90 Detroit Tigers  
Billy Moran 90 Los Angeles Angels  
Jerry Lumpe 89 Kansas City Athletics 17
Floyd Robinson 89 Chicago White Sox  
Lee Thomas 88 Los Angeles Angels 19
Clete Boyer 85 New York Yankees 20
Harmon Killebrew 85 Minnesota Twins  
Tito Francona 82 Cleveland Indians 22
Jim Landis 82 Chicago White Sox  
Ed Charles 81 Kansas City Athletics 24
Jim Gentile 80 Baltimore Orioles 25



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.

The most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?