Top 25 Home Runs in 1985 in the American League

Home Runs : 1985 American League Top 25

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"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)

1985 Home Runs Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Home Runs Team Rank

Darrell Evans 40 Detroit Tigers 1

Carlton Fisk 37 Chicago White Sox 2

Steve Balboni 36 Kansas City Royals 3

Don Mattingly 35 New York Yankees 4

Gorman Thomas 32 Seattle Mariners 5

Eddie Murray 31 Baltimore Orioles 6

George Brett 30 Kansas City Royals 7

Dave Kingman 30 Oakland Athletics

Dwight Evans 29 Boston Red Sox 9

Kirk Gibson 29 Detroit Tigers

George Bell 28 Toronto Blue Jays 11

Lance Parrish 28 Detroit Tigers

Jim Presley 28 Seattle Mariners

Mike Young 28 Baltimore Orioles

Jesse Barfield 27 Toronto Blue Jays 15

Tom Brunansky 27 Minnesota Twins

Reggie Jackson 27 California Angels

Jim Rice 27 Boston Red Sox

Phil Bradley 26 Seattle Mariners 19

Ron Kittle 26 Chicago White Sox

Cal Ripken, Jr. 26 Baltimore Orioles

Dave Winfield 26 New York Yankees

Mike Davis 24 Oakland Athletics 23

Rickey Henderson 24 New York Yankees

Greg Walker 24 Chicago White Sox

Name Home Runs 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 most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?

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