1940 Hits Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Hits	Team	Rank
Doc Cramer	200	Boston Red Sox	1
Barney McCosky	200	Detroit Tigers
Rip Radcliff	200	St. Louis Browns
Luke Appling	197	Chicago White Sox	4
Taffy Wright	196	Chicago White Sox	5
Hank Greenberg	195	Detroit Tigers	6
Ted Williams	193	Boston Red Sox	7
George Case	192	Washington Senators	8
Buddy Lewis	190	Washington Senators	9
Rudy York	186	Detroit Tigers	10
Lou Boudreau	185	Cleveland Indians	11
Joe DiMaggio	179	New York Yankees	12
Gee Walker	175	Washington Senators	13
Roy Weatherly	175	Cleveland Indians
Bobby Doerr	173	Boston Red Sox	15
Joe Gordon	173	New York Yankees
Lou Finney	171	Boston Red Sox	17
Dick Siebert	170	Philadelphia Athletics	18
Cecil Travis	170	Washington Senators
Joe Kuhel	169	Chicago White Sox	20
George McQuinn	166	St. Louis Browns	21
Wally Moses	166	Philadelphia Athletics
Charlie Gehringer	161	Detroit Tigers	23
Ben Chapman	157	Cleveland Indians	24
Wally Judnich	157	St. Louis Browns
Name	Hits	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. 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.