Top 25 Runs Batted In in 1979 in the American League

Runs Batted In : 1979 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)

1979 Runs Batted In Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Runs Batted In Team Rank

Don Baylor 139 California Angels 1

Jim Rice 130 Boston Red Sox 2

Gorman Thomas 123 Milwaukee Brewers 3

Fred Lynn 122 Boston Red Sox 4

Darrell Porter 112 Kansas City Royals 5

Ken Singleton 111 Baltimore Orioles 6

George Brett 107 Kansas City Royals 7

Cecil Cooper 106 Milwaukee Brewers 8

Willie Horton 106 Seattle Mariners

Steve Kemp 105 Detroit Tigers 10

Buddy Bell 101 Texas Rangers 11

Dan Ford 101 California Angels

Bobby Grich 101 California Angels

Sixto Lezcano 101 Milwaukee Brewers

Bruce Bochte 100 Seattle Mariners 15

Eddie Murray 99 Baltimore Orioles 16

Roy Smalley 95 Minnesota Twins 17

Butch Hobson 93 Boston Red Sox 18

Andre Thornton 93 Cleveland Indians

Amos Otis 90 Kansas City Royals 20

Reggie Jackson 89 New York Yankees 21

Carl Yastrzemski 87 Boston Red Sox 22

Chet Lemon 86 Chicago White Sox 23

Bobby Bonds 85 Cleveland Indians 24

Ken Landreaux 83 Minnesota Twins 25

Name Runs Batted In Team Rank

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

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.

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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