Strikeouts : 1907 American League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"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)
 

1907 Strikeouts Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Rube Waddell 232 Philadelphia Athletics 1
Ed Walsh 206 Chicago White Sox 2
Eddie Plank 183 Philadelphia Athletics 3
Jimmy Dygert 151 Philadelphia Athletics 4
Cy Young 147 Boston Americans 5
George Mullin 146 Detroit Tigers 6
Doc White 141 Chicago White Sox 7
Frank Smith 139 Chicago White Sox 8
Addie Joss 127 Cleveland Naps 9
Bill Donovan 123 Detroit Tigers 10
Charlie Smith 119 Washington Senators 11
Harry Howell 118 St. Louis Browns 12
Chief Bender 112 Philadelphia Athletics 13
Glenn Liebhardt 110 Cleveland Naps 14
Cy Falkenberg 108 Washington Senators 15
Tom Hughes 102 Washington Senators 16
Ed Killian 96 Detroit Tigers 17
Jack Powell 96 St. Louis Browns  
Slow Joe Doyle 94 New York Highlanders 19
Ed Siever 88 Detroit Tigers 20
George Winter 88 Boston Americans  
Barney Pelty 85 St. Louis Browns 22
Jack Chesbro 78 New York Highlanders 23
Al Orth 78 New York Highlanders  
Bob Rhoads 76 Cleveland Naps 25



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.

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).