1944 Games Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Games	Team	Rank
Joe Heving	63	Cleveland Indians	1
Joe Berry	53	Philadelphia Athletics	2
Dizzy Trout	49	Detroit Tigers	3
Ed Klieman	47	Cleveland Indians	4
Hal Newhouser	47	Detroit Tigers
Gordon Maltzberger	46	Chicago White Sox	6
Alex Carrasquel	43	Washington Senators	7
George Caster	42	St. Louis Browns	8
Mike Ryba	42	Boston Red Sox
Frank Barrett	38	Boston Red Sox	10
Pinky Woods	38	Boston Red Sox
Rufe Gentry	37	Detroit Tigers	12
Bobo Newsom	37	Philadelphia Athletics
Bill Dietrich	36	Chicago White Sox	14
Ray Poat	36	Cleveland Indians
Hank Borowy	35	New York Yankees	16
Paul Calvert	35	Cleveland Indians
Russ Christopher	35	Philadelphia Athletics
Steve Gromek	35	Cleveland Indians
Sig Jakucki	35	St. Louis Browns
Jim Turner	35	New York Yankees
Johnny Gorsica	34	Detroit Tigers	22
Orval Grove	34	Chicago White Sox
Joe Haynes	33	Chicago White Sox	24
Jack Kramer	33	St. Louis Browns
Name	Games	Team	Rank

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