Wins : 1933 American League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"What people don't understand is, one day off for Cal Ripken would not recharge his batteries. One day would not do it. He's not playing 2,130 games in a row. Cal is ONLY playing 162 games a year." - Frank Robinson in The Sporting News (September 11, 1995)
 

1933 Wins Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Alvin Crowder 24 Washington Senators 1
Lefty Grove 24 Philadelphia Athletics  
Earl Whitehill 22 Washington Senators 3
Lefty Gomez 16 New York Yankees 4
Oral Hildebrand 16 Cleveland Indians  
Firpo Marberry 16 Detroit Tigers  
Johnny Allen 15 New York Yankees 7
George Blaeholder 15 St. Louis Browns  
Bump Hadley 15 St. Louis Browns  
Mel Harder 15 Cleveland Indians  
Lefty Stewart 15 Washington Senators  
Tommy Bridges 14 Detroit Tigers 12
Sugar Cain 13 Philadelphia Athletics 13
Roy Mahaffey 13 Philadelphia Athletics  
Gordon Rhodes 12 Boston Red Sox 15
Jack Russell 12 Washington Senators  
Russ Van Atta 12 New York Yankees  
Clint Brown 11 Cleveland Indians 18
Wes Ferrell 11 Cleveland Indians  
Carl Fischer 11 Detroit Tigers  
George Pipgras 11 New York Yankees  
Boston Red Sox  
Vic Sorrell 11 Detroit Tigers  
Ed Durham 10 Chicago White Sox 23
Sam Jones 10 Chicago White Sox  
Ted Lyons 10 Chicago White Sox  



Future Hall of Famer Sammy Sosa is best known for wearing number twenty-one; however, when the young slugger played for the Chicago White Sox (1989-1991) he only wore number twenty-five.

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.