Complete Games : 1926 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:

"When you're playing 162 baseball games, you're playing almost every day, it's nice to have a guy (Jose Lima) like that around to lighten things up and have fun. It's a huge plus for us." - Detroit Tigers Pitcher Matt Anderson
 

1926 Complete Games Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

George Uhle 32 Cleveland Indians 1
Ted Lyons 24 Chicago White Sox 2
Walter Johnson 22 Washington Senators 3
Lefty Grove 20 Philadelphia Athletics 4
Herb Pennock 19 New York Yankees 5
Dutch Levsen 18 Cleveland Indians 6
Urban Shocker 18 New York Yankees  
Tom Zachary 18 St. Louis Browns  
Howard Ehmke 17 Boston Red Sox 9
Philadelphia Athletics  
Sam Gibson 16 Detroit Tigers 10
Sherry Smith 16 Cleveland Indians  
Ted Blankenship 15 Chicago White Sox 12
Joe Shaute 15 Cleveland Indians  
Milt Gaston 14 St. Louis Browns 14
Red Faber 13 Chicago White Sox 15
Tommy Thomas 13 Chicago White Sox  
Earl Whitehill 13 Detroit Tigers  
Waite Hoyt 12 New York Yankees 18
Eddie Rommel 12 Philadelphia Athletics  
Stan Coveleski 11 Washington Senators 20
Dutch Ruether 10 Washington Senators 21
New York Yankees  
Ed Wells 9 Detroit Tigers 22
Hal Wiltse 9 Boston Red Sox  
Ted Wingfield 9 Boston Red Sox  
Jim Joe Edwards 8 Chicago White Sox 25



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

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.

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).