Complete Games : 1945 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:

"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)
 

1945 Complete Games Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Hal Newhouser 29 Detroit Tigers 1
Dave Ferriss 26 Boston Red Sox 2
Steve Gromek 21 Cleveland Indians 3
Nels Potter 21 St. Louis Browns  
Roger Wolff 21 Washington Senators  
Mickey Haefner 19 Washington Senators 6
Thornton Lee 19 Chicago White Sox  
Dizzy Trout 18 Detroit Tigers 8
Russ Christopher 17 Philadelphia Athletics 9
Ed Lopat 17 Chicago White Sox  
Orval Grove 16 Chicago White Sox 11
Bobo Newsom 16 Philadelphia Athletics  
Allie Reynolds 16 Cleveland Indians  
Al Hollingsworth 15 St. Louis Browns 14
Sig Jakucki 15 St. Louis Browns  
Jack Kramer 15 St. Louis Browns  
Bill Bevens 14 New York Yankees 17
Marino Pieretti 14 Washington Senators  
Al Benton 12 Detroit Tigers 19
Tiny Bonham 12 New York Yankees  
Dutch Leonard 12 Washington Senators  
Jim Bagby 11 Cleveland Indians 22
Johnny Humphries 10 Chicago White Sox 23
Bob Muncrief 10 St. Louis Browns  
Emmett O'Neill 10 Boston Red Sox  



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.

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.