Shutouts : 1956 American League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)
 

1956 Shutouts Leaders

Top 25 in the American League
Herb Score 5 Cleveland Indians 1
Tom Brewer 4 Boston Red Sox 2
Mike Garcia 4 Cleveland Indians  
Jack Harshman 4 Chicago White Sox  
Billy Hoeft 4 Detroit Tigers  
Early Wynn 4 Cleveland Indians  
Dick Donovan 3 Chicago White Sox 7
Johnny Kucks 3 New York Yankees  
Frank Lary 3 Detroit Tigers  
Jim Wilson 3 Baltimore Orioles  
Chicago White Sox  
Art Ditmar 2 Kansas City Athletics 11
Whitey Ford 2 New York Yankees  
Connie Johnson 2 Chicago White Sox  
Baltimore Orioles  
Bob Lemon 2 Cleveland Indians  
Tom Sturdivant 2 New York Yankees  
Hank Aguirre 1 Cleveland Indians 16
Charlie Beamon 1 Baltimore Orioles  
Hal Brown 1 Baltimore Orioles  
Wally Burnette 1 Kansas City Athletics  
Don Ferrarese 1 Baltimore Orioles  
Mike Fornieles 1 Chicago White Sox  
Baltimore Orioles  
Paul Foytack 1 Detroit Tigers  
Don Larsen 1 New York Yankees  
Ray Moore 1 Baltimore Orioles  
Willard Nixon 1 Boston Red Sox  



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.

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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