Top 25 Wins in 1971 in the American League

Wins : 1971 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)

1971 Wins Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Wins Team Rank

Mickey Lolich 25 Detroit Tigers 1

Vida Blue 24 Oakland Athletics 2

Wilbur Wood 22 Chicago White Sox 3

Catfish Hunter 21 Oakland Athletics 4

Dave McNally 21 Baltimore Orioles

Joe Coleman 20 Detroit Tigers 6

Mike Cuellar 20 Baltimore Orioles

Pat Dobson 20 Baltimore Orioles

Andy Messersmith 20 California Angels

Jim Palmer 20 Baltimore Orioles

Dick Drago 17 Kansas City Royals 11

Jim Perry 17 Minnesota Twins

Bert Blyleven 16 Minnesota Twins 13

Sonny Siebert 16 Boston Red Sox

Mel Stottlemyre 16 New York Yankees

Clyde Wright 16 California Angels

Tom Bradley 15 Chicago White Sox 17

Chuck Dobson 15 Oakland Athletics

Mike Hedlund 15 Kansas City Royals

Fritz Peterson 15 New York Yankees

Stan Bahnsen 14 New York Yankees 21

Ray Culp 14 Boston Red Sox

Marty Pattin 14 Milwaukee Brewers

Gary Peters 14 Boston Red Sox

Tommy John 13 Chicago White Sox 25

Name Wins Team Rank

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.

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.

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