Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball records for strikeouts — including career strikeout records, single season strikeout plateaus and game related strikeout records.

"I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player." - Reggie Jackson (American League career leader for strikeouts)

The most times an American League pitcher struck out during a single season was 65 times set in 1972, by Wilbur Wood of the Chicago White Sox. In the National League it was 62 times, set in 1968, by Jerry Koosman of the New York Mets.

Reggie Jackson, the all-time strikeout leader, also holds the Major League record for most seasons with at least one-hundred strikeouts — he has eighteen of them during his hall of fame career!

Did you know that from 1952 through 1962, Nellie Fox led the league in fewest strikeouts for a player appearing in at least one-hundred fifty games?