Top 25 Home Runs in 1916 in the American League

Home Runs : 1916 American League Top 25

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"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)

1916 Home Runs Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Home Runs Team Rank

Wally Pipp 12 New York Yankees 1

Frank Baker 10 New York Yankees 2

Happy Felsch 7 Chicago White Sox 3

Wally Schang 7 Philadelphia Athletics

Ty Cobb 5 Detroit Tigers 5

Jack Graney 5 Cleveland Indians

Del Pratt 5 St. Louis Browns

Elmer Smith 5 Cleveland Indians

Washington Senators

George Burns 4 Detroit Tigers 9

Roger Peckinpaugh 4 New York Yankees

Braggo Roth 4 Cleveland Indians

George Sisler 4 St. Louis Browns

Jack Fournier 3 Chicago White Sox 13

Del Gainer 3 Boston Red Sox

Joe Jackson 3 Chicago White Sox

Lee Magee 3 New York Yankees

Babe Ruth 3 Boston Red Sox

Amos Strunk 3 Philadelphia Athletics

Bobby Veach 3 Detroit Tigers

Tilly Walker 3 Boston Red Sox

Buck Weaver 3 Chicago White Sox

Larry Gardner 2 Boston Red Sox 22

Harry Heilmann 2 Detroit Tigers

Nap Lajoie 2 Philadelphia Athletics

Tris Speaker 2 Cleveland Indians

Name Home Runs Team Rank

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

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).

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.

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