Runs : 1989 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)
 

1989 Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Wade Boggs 113 Boston Red Sox 1
Rickey Henderson 113 New York Yankees  
Oakland Athletics  
Ruben Sierra 101 Texas Rangers 3
Robin Yount 101 Milwaukee Brewers  
Fred McGriff 98 Toronto Blue Jays 5
George Bell 88 Toronto Blue Jays 6
Steve Sax 88 New York Yankees  
Mike Greenwell 87 Boston Red Sox 8
Harold Reynolds 87 Seattle Mariners  
Bo Jackson 86 Kansas City Royals 10
Devon White 86 California Angels  
Joe Carter 84 Cleveland Indians 12
Alvin Davis 84 Seattle Mariners  
Paul Molitor 84 Milwaukee Brewers  
Phil Bradley 83 Baltimore Orioles 15
Jerry Browne 83 Cleveland Indians  
Ivan Calderon 83 Chicago White Sox  
Kelly Gruber 83 Toronto Blue Jays  
Dwight Evans 82 Boston Red Sox 19
Chili Davis 81 California Angels 20
Carney Lansford 81 Oakland Athletics  
Julio Franco 80 Texas Rangers 22
Cal Ripken, Jr. 80 Baltimore Orioles  
Jesse Barfield 79 Toronto Blue Jays 24
New York Yankees  
Nick Esasky 79 Boston Red Sox  



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

Did you know that more than forty players have worn the number twenty-five for the Boston Red Sox — including Jack Clark, Denny Galehouse, Dizzy Trout and Tony Conigliaro.

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.