Top 25 Runs in 1988 in the American League

Runs : 1988 American League Top 25

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"The baseball season - six months & 2,106 games - is flat out long, and it's a rare one of those games that doesn't ramble or sputter or digress or somehow violate the rules of dramatic narrative. Baseball takes its own sweet time reaching its conclusions." - Dwight Allen in Reds, Yanks and O's (1989)

1988 Runs Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Runs Team Rank

Wade Boggs 128 Boston Red Sox 1

Jose Canseco 120 Oakland Athletics 2

Rickey Henderson 118 New York Yankees 3

Paul Molitor 115 Milwaukee Brewers 4

Kirby Puckett 109 Minnesota Twins 5

Dave Henderson 100 Oakland Athletics 6

Fred McGriff 100 Toronto Blue Jays

Dwight Evans 96 Boston Red Sox 8

Dave Winfield 96 New York Yankees

Don Mattingly 94 New York Yankees 10

Ellis Burks 93 Boston Red Sox 11

Robin Yount 92 Milwaukee Brewers 12

Dan Gladden 91 Minnesota Twins 13

George Brett 90 Kansas City Royals 14

Kevin Seitzer 90 Kansas City Royals

Julio Franco 88 Cleveland Indians 16

Mark McGwire 87 Oakland Athletics 17

Cal Ripken, Jr. 87 Baltimore Orioles

Mike Greenwell 86 Boston Red Sox 19

Joe Carter 85 Cleveland Indians 20

Marty Barrett 83 Boston Red Sox 21

Jack Clark 81 New York Yankees 22

Chili Davis 81 California Angels

Wally Joyner 81 California Angels

Willie Wilson 81 Kansas City Royals

Name Runs Team Rank

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

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 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?

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