Runs : 1906 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)
 

1906 Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Elmer Flick 98 Cleveland Naps 1
Topsy Hartsel 96 Philadelphia Athletics 2
Willie Keeler 96 New York Highlanders  
Harry Davis 94 Philadelphia Athletics 4
George Stone 91 St. Louis Browns 5
Charlie Hemphill 90 St. Louis Browns 6
Nap Lajoie 88 Cleveland Naps 7
Terry Turner 85 Cleveland Naps 8
Hal Chase 84 New York Highlanders 9
Ed Hahn 82 New York Highlanders 10
Chicago White Sox  
Fielder Jones 77 Chicago White Sox 11
Frank Isbell 71 Chicago White Sox 12
Harry Niles 71 St. Louis Browns  
Jiggs Donahue 70 Chicago White Sox 14
Wid Conroy 67 New York Highlanders 15
Freddy Parent 67 Boston Americans  
Sam Crawford 65 Detroit Tigers 17
Bobby Wallace 64 St. Louis Browns 18
George Davis 63 Chicago White Sox 19
Matty McIntyre 63 Detroit Tigers  
Chick Stahl 63 Boston Americans  
John Anderson 62 Washington Senators 22
Jimmy Williams 62 New York Highlanders  
Frank LaPorte 60 New York Highlanders 24
Larry Schlafly 60 Washington Senators  



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.

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.