Runs Batted In : 1938 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)
 

1938 Runs Batted In Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Jimmie Foxx 175 Boston Red Sox 1
Hank Greenberg 146 Detroit Tigers 2
Joe DiMaggio 140 New York Yankees 3
Rudy York 127 Detroit Tigers 4
Harlond Clift 118 St. Louis Browns 5
Bill Dickey 115 New York Yankees 6
Zeke Bonura 114 Washington Senators 7
Lou Gehrig 114 New York Yankees  
Bob Johnson 113 Philadelphia Athletics 9
Ken Keltner 113 Cleveland Indians  
Jeff Heath 112 Cleveland Indians 11
Hal Trosky 110 Cleveland Indians 12
Charlie Gehringer 107 Detroit Tigers 13
Pinky Higgins 106 Boston Red Sox 14
Joe Gordon 97 New York Yankees 15
Pete Fox 96 Detroit Tigers 16
Al Simmons 95 Washington Senators 17
Joe Cronin 94 Boston Red Sox 18
Earl Averill 93 Cleveland Indians 19
Tommy Henrich 91 New York Yankees 20
Buddy Lewis 91 Washington Senators  
Gee Walker 87 Chicago White Sox 22
Joe Vosmik 86 Boston Red Sox 23
Beau Bell 84 St. Louis Browns 24
George McQuinn 82 St. Louis Browns 25



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.

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