Top 25 Runs in 1991 in the American League

Runs : 1991 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)

1991 Runs Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Runs Team Rank

Paul Molitor 133 Milwaukee Brewers 1

Jose Canseco 115 Oakland Athletics 2

Rafael Palmeiro 115 Texas Rangers

Ruben Sierra 110 Texas Rangers 4

Devon White 110 Toronto Blue Jays

Julio Franco 108 Texas Rangers 6

Rickey Henderson 105 Oakland Athletics 7

Frank Thomas 104 Chicago White Sox 8

Cecil Fielder 102 Detroit Tigers 9

Tim Raines 102 Chicago White Sox

Cal Ripken, Jr. 99 Baltimore Orioles 11

Edgar Martinez 98 Seattle Mariners 12

Harold Reynolds 95 Seattle Mariners 13

Lou Whitaker 94 Detroit Tigers 14

Wade Boggs 93 Boston Red Sox 15

Luis Polonia 92 California Angels 16

Kirby Puckett 92 Minnesota Twins

Robin Ventura 92 Chicago White Sox

Joe Carter 89 Toronto Blue Jays 19

Roberto Alomar 88 Toronto Blue Jays 20

Tony Phillips 87 Detroit Tigers 21

Jody Reed 87 Boston Red Sox

Dave Henderson 86 Oakland Athletics 23

Brian McRae 86 Kansas City Royals

Steve Sax 85 New York Yankees 25

Name Runs Team Rank

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?

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.

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.

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