1944 Runs Batted In Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Runs Batted In	Team	Rank
Vern Stephens	109	St. Louis Browns	1
Bob Johnson	106	Boston Red Sox	2
Johnny Lindell	103	New York Yankees	3
Stan Spence	100	Washington Senators	4
Rudy York	98	Detroit Tigers	5
Nick Etten	91	New York Yankees	6
Ken Keltner	91	Cleveland Indians
Mark Christman	83	St. Louis Browns	8
Bobby Doerr	81	Boston Red Sox	9
Roy Cullenbine	80	Cleveland Indians	10
Frankie Hayes	78	Philadelphia Athletics	11
Pinky Higgins	76	Detroit Tigers	12
George McQuinn	72	St. Louis Browns	13
Jim Tabor	72	Boston Red Sox
Mickey Rocco	70	Cleveland Indians	15
Hal Trosky	70	Chicago White Sox
Lou Boudreau	67	Cleveland Indians	17
Bud Metheny	67	New York Yankees
Pete Fox	64	Boston Red Sox	19
Eddie Mayo	63	Detroit Tigers	20
Eddie Carnett	60	Chicago White Sox	21
Bobby Estalella	60	Philadelphia Athletics
Catfish Metkovich	59	Boston Red Sox	23
Gene Moore	58	St. Louis Browns	24
Gil Torres	58	Washington Senators
Name	Runs Batted In	Team	Rank

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