1969 Hits Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Hits	Team	Rank
Tony Oliva	197	Minnesota Twins	1
Horace Clarke	183	New York Yankees	2
Paul Blair	178	Baltimore Orioles	3
Frank Howard	175	Washington Senators	4
Tony Horton	174	Cleveland Indians	5
Sal Bando	171	Oakland Athletics	6
Luis Aparicio	168	Chicago White Sox	7
Reggie Smith	168	Boston Red Sox
Frank Robinson	166	Baltimore Orioles	9
Del Unser	166	Washington Senators
Leo Cardenas	162	Minnesota Twins	11
Boog Powell	162	Baltimore Orioles
Don Buford	161	Baltimore Orioles	13
Jim Northrup	160	Detroit Tigers	14
Rico Petrocelli	159	Boston Red Sox	15
Cesar Tovar	154	Minnesota Twins	16
Carl Yastrzemski	154	Boston Red Sox
Sandy Alomar	153	Chicago White Sox	18
		California Angels
Ed Brinkman	153	Washington Senators
Danny Cater	153	Oakland Athletics
Harmon Killebrew	153	Minnesota Twins
Ken McMullen	153	Washington Senators
Mark Belanger	152	Baltimore Orioles	23
Rod Carew	152	Minnesota Twins
Jim Fregosi	151	California Angels	25
Name	Hits	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. 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).