1998 Hits Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Hits	Team	Rank
Alex Rodriguez	213	Seattle Mariners	1
Mo Vaughn	205	Boston Red Sox	2
Derek Jeter	203	New York Yankees	3
Albert Belle	200	Chicago White Sox	4
Nomar Garciaparra	195	Boston Red Sox	5
Juan Gonzalez	193	Texas Rangers	6
Paul O'Neill	191	New York Yankees	7
Jose Offerman	191	Kansas City Royals
Ivan Rodriguez	186	Texas Rangers	9
Jim Edmonds	184	Anaheim Angels	10
Garret Anderson	183	Anaheim Angels	11
Rusty Greer	183	Texas Rangers
Rafael Palmeiro	183	Baltimore Orioles
Ray Durham	181	Chicago White Sox	14
Ken Griffey, Jr.	180	Seattle Mariners	15
Edgar Martinez	179	Seattle Mariners	16
Quinton McCracken	179	Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Johnny Damon	178	Kansas City Royals	18
Tony Clark	175	Detroit Tigers	19
Shawn Green	175	Toronto Blue Jays
Bobby Higginson	174	Detroit Tigers	21
Will Clark	169	Texas Rangers	22
Kenny Lofton	169	Cleveland Indians
Bernie Williams	169	New York Yankees
Ben Grieve	168	Oakland Athletics	25
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. 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. The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.