Top 25 Home Runs in 1986 in the American League

Home Runs : 1986 American League Top 25

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"The baseball season - six months & 2,106 games - is flat out long, and it's a rare one of those games that doesn't ramble or sputter or digress or somehow violate the rules of dramatic narrative. Baseball takes its own sweet time reaching its conclusions." - Dwight Allen in Reds, Yanks and O's (1989)

1986 Home Runs Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Home Runs Team Rank

Jesse Barfield 40 Toronto Blue Jays 1

Dave Kingman 35 Oakland Athletics 2

Gary Gaetti 34 Minnesota Twins 3

Jose Canseco 33 Oakland Athletics 4

Rob Deer 33 Milwaukee Brewers

Don Baylor 31 Boston Red Sox 6

George Bell 31 Toronto Blue Jays

Don Mattingly 31 New York Yankees

Kirby Puckett 31 Minnesota Twins

Pete Incaviglia 30 Texas Rangers 10

Steve Balboni 29 Kansas City Royals 11

Joe Carter 29 Cleveland Indians

Darrell Evans 29 Detroit Tigers

Kent Hrbek 29 Minnesota Twins

Kirk Gibson 28 Detroit Tigers 15

Rickey Henderson 28 New York Yankees

Mike Pagliarulo 28 New York Yankees

Larry Parrish 28 Texas Rangers

Jim Presley 27 Seattle Mariners 19

Doug DeCinces 26 California Angels 20

Dwight Evans 26 Boston Red Sox

Cal Ripken, Jr. 25 Baltimore Orioles 22

Danny Tartabull 25 Seattle Mariners

Ken Phelps 24 Seattle Mariners 24

Cory Snyder 24 Cleveland Indians

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.

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

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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