Shutouts : 1906 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)
 

1906 Shutouts Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Ed Walsh 10 Chicago White Sox 1
Addie Joss 9 Cleveland Naps 2
Rube Waddell 8 Philadelphia Athletics 3
Otto Hess 7 Cleveland Naps 4
Frank Owen 7 Chicago White Sox  
Case Patten 7 Washington Senators  
Bob Rhoads 7 Cleveland Naps  
Doc White 7 Chicago White Sox  
Harry Howell 6 St. Louis Browns 9
Eddie Plank 5 Philadelphia Athletics 10
Nick Altrock 4 Chicago White Sox 11
Jack Chesbro 4 New York Highlanders  
Jimmy Dygert 4 Philadelphia Athletics  
Fred Glade 4 St. Louis Browns  
Barney Pelty 4 St. Louis Browns  
Walter Clarkson 3 New York Highlanders 16
Red Donahue 3 Detroit Tigers  
Bill Hogg 3 New York Highlanders  
Al Orth 3 New York Highlanders  
Roy Patterson 3 Chicago White Sox  
Jack Powell 3 St. Louis Browns  
Bill Bernhard 2 Cleveland Naps 22
Slow Joe Doyle 2 New York Highlanders  
Cy Falkenberg 2 Washington Senators  
George Mullin 2 Detroit Tigers  



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.

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.