Shutouts : 1903 American League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"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)
 

1903 Shutouts Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Cy Young 7 Boston Americans 1
Bill Dinneen 6 Boston Americans 2
George Mullin 6 Detroit Tigers  
Tom Hughes 5 Boston Americans 4
Willie Sudhoff 5 St. Louis Browns  
Red Donahue 4 St. Louis Browns 6
Cleveland Blues  
Bill Donovan 4 Detroit Tigers  
Jack Powell 4 St. Louis Browns  
Rube Waddell 4 Philadelphia Athletics  
Bill Bernhard 3 Cleveland Blues 10
Addie Joss 3 Cleveland Blues  
Ed Killian 3 Cleveland Blues  
Earl Moore 3 Cleveland Blues  
Eddie Plank 3 Philadelphia Athletics  
Doc White 3 Chicago White Stockings  
Chief Bender 2 Philadelphia Athletics 16
Gus Dorner 2 Cleveland Blues  
Patsy Flaherty 2 Chicago White Stockings  
Norwood Gibson 2 Boston Americans  
Clark Griffith 2 New York Highlanders  
Rube Kisinger 2 Detroit Tigers  
Frank Kitson 2 Detroit Tigers  
Watty Lee 2 Washington Senators  
Al Orth 2 Washington Senators  
Roy Patterson 2 Chicago White Stockings  



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.

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).

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.