Top 25 Runs Batted In in 1997 in the American League

Runs Batted In : 1997 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)

1997 Runs Batted In Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Runs Batted In Team Rank

Ken Griffey, Jr. 147 Seattle Mariners 1

Tino Martinez 141 New York Yankees 2

Juan Gonzalez 131 Texas Rangers 3

Tim Salmon 129 Anaheim Angels 4

Frank Thomas 125 Chicago White Sox 5

Tony Clark 117 Detroit Tigers 6

Paul O'Neill 117 New York Yankees

Albert Belle 116 Chicago White Sox 8

Jeff King 112 Kansas City Royals 9

Rafael Palmeiro 110 Baltimore Orioles 10

Jay Buhner 109 Seattle Mariners 11

Edgar Martinez 108 Seattle Mariners 12

Matt Williams 105 Cleveland Indians 13

Joe Carter 102 Toronto Blue Jays 14

Travis Fryman 102 Detroit Tigers

Jim Thome 102 Cleveland Indians

Bobby Higginson 101 Detroit Tigers 17

David Justice 101 Cleveland Indians

Bernie Williams 100 New York Yankees 19

Nomar Garciaparra 98 Boston Red Sox 20

Mo Vaughn 96 Boston Red Sox 21

Garret Anderson 92 Anaheim Angels 22

Jay Bell 92 Kansas City Royals

Carlos Delgado 91 Toronto Blue Jays 24

Geronimo Berroa 90 Oakland Athletics 25

Baltimore Orioles

Name Runs Batted In Team Rank

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?

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.

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.

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