Top 25 Shutouts in 1882 in the American Association

Shutouts : 1882 American Association Top 25

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"When you're playing 162 baseball games, you're playing almost every day, it's nice to have a guy (Jose Lima) like that around to lighten things up and have fun. It's a huge plus for us." - Detroit Tigers Pitcher Matt Anderson

1882 Shutouts Leaders
Top 25 in the American Association

Name Shutouts Team Rank

Will White 8 Cincinnati Red Stockings 1

Tony Mullane 5 Louisville Eclipse 2

Harry McCormick 3 Cincinnati Red Stockings 3

Jumbo McGinnis 3 St. Louis Brown Stockings

Sam Weaver 2 Philadelphia Athletics 5

Morrie Critchley 1 Pittsburgh Alleghenys 6

St. Louis Brown Stockings

Bill Geis 1 Baltimore Orioles

John Reccius 1 Louisville Eclipse

Harry Salisbury 1 Pittsburgh Alleghenys

Name Shutouts Team Rank

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.

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).

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

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