Top 25 Doubles in 1969 in the American League

Doubles : 1969 American League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)

1969 Doubles Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Doubles Team Rank

Tony Oliva 39 Minnesota Twins 1

Reggie Jackson 36 Oakland Athletics 2

Davey Johnson 34 Baltimore Orioles 3

Paul Blair 32 Baltimore Orioles 4

Rico Petrocelli 32 Boston Red Sox

Don Buford 31 Baltimore Orioles 6

Jim Northrup 31 Detroit Tigers

Rod Carew 30 Minnesota Twins 8

Roy White 30 New York Yankees

Tommy Davis 29 Seattle Pilots 10

Reggie Smith 29 Boston Red Sox

Mickey Stanley 28 Detroit Tigers 12

Carl Yastrzemski 28 Boston Red Sox

Mike Andrews 26 Boston Red Sox 14

Jose Cardenal 26 Cleveland Indians

Horace Clarke 26 New York Yankees

Bill Melton 26 Chicago White Sox

Sal Bando 25 Oakland Athletics 18

Dick Green 25 Oakland Athletics

Tony Horton 25 Cleveland Indians

Ken McMullen 25 Washington Senators

Boog Powell 25 Baltimore Orioles

Cesar Tovar 25 Minnesota Twins

Luis Aparicio 24 Chicago White Sox 24

Leo Cardenas 24 Minnesota Twins

Name Doubles Team Rank

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.

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.

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).

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