Stolen Bases All Time Leaders on Baseball Almanac

Career Leaders for Stolen Bases

Stealing in a game? Name another professional sport where stealing is allowed. This chart should open some eyes as we often forget that players like Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner and Paul Molitor were highly proficient base thieves.

Raw speed and the ability to get on base are needed to appear on Baseball Almanac's chart of the top one-hundred (100) career stolen base leaders. Note: A bold faced entry denotes that the player was active during the previous Major League season.

"Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time." - Hall of Famer Lou Brock (2nd Overall Stolen Bases Leader)

Stolen Bases All Time Leaders 'Top 100'
Name	Stolen Bases	Rank
Rickey Henderson	1,406	1
Lou Brock	938	2
Billy Hamilton	912	3
Ty Cobb	892	4
Tim Raines	808	5
Vince Coleman	752	6
Eddie Collins	744	7
Arlie Latham	739	8
Max Carey	738	9
Honus Wagner	722	10
Joe Morgan	689	11
Willie Wilson	668	12
Tom Brown	657	13
Bert Campaneris	649	14
Kenny Lofton	622	15
Otis Nixon	620	16
George Davis	616	17
Dummy Hoy	594	18
Maury Wills	586	19
George Van Haltren	583	20
Ozzie Smith	580	21
Hugh Duffy	574	22
Bid McPhee	568	23
Brett Butler	558	24
Davey Lopes	557	25
Cesar Cedeno	550	26
Bill Dahlen	547	27
John Ward	540	28
Herman Long	534	29
Patsy Donovan	518	30
Jack Doyle	516	31
Barry Bonds	514	32
Harry Stovey	509	33
Luis Aparicio	506	34
Fred Clarke	506
Paul Molitor	504	36
Willie Keeler	495	37
Clyde Milan	495
Omar Moreno	487	39
Roberto Alomar	474	40
Mike Griffin	473	41
Tommy McCarthy	468	42
Jimmy Sheckard	465	43
Eric Young	465
Delino DeShields	463	45
Bobby Bonds	461	46
Ed Delahanty	455	47
Ron LeFlore	455
Curt Welch	453	49
Steve Sax	444	50
Joe Kelley	443	51
Sherry Magee	441	52
John McGraw	436	53
Tris Speaker	432	54
Marquis Grissom	429	55
Juan Pierre	429
Mike Tiernan	428	57
Bob Bescher	427	58
Charlie Comiskey	419	59
Frankie Frisch	419
Jimmy Ryan	418	61
Craig Biggio	414	62
Tommy Harper	408	63
Chuck Knoblauch	407	64
Donie Bush	404	65
Frank Chance	401	66
Bill Lange	399	67
Willie Davis	398	68
Sam Mertes	396	69
Juan Samuel	396
Dave Collins	395	71
Billy North	395
Jesse Burkett	389	73
Tommy Corcoran	387	74
Tom Daly	385	75
Freddie Patek	385
Omar Vizquel	385
George Burns	383	78
Hugh Nicol	383
Fred Pfeffer	382	80
Walt Wilmot	381	81
Nap Lajoie	380	82
Barry Larkin	379	83
Harry Hooper	375	84
George Sisler	375
Jack Glasscock	372	86
Lonnie Smith	370	87
Tom Goodwin	369	88
King Kelly	368	89
Sam Crawford	366	90
Tommy Dowd	366
Hal Chase	363	92
Tony Womack	363
Johnny Damon	362	94
Tommy Leach	361	95
Hughie Jennings	359	96
Fielder Jones	359
Buck Ewing	354	98
Gary Pettis	354
Rod Carew	353	100
Name	Stolen Bases	Rank
Current Through 2008 Season

During the 1909 season rookie Bill O'Hara was inserted as pinch runner and stole second and third base during the same inning. The very next day he was inserted as a pinch runner and stole second and third base yet again, also during the same inning.

In 1988 Rick Sutcliffe, who was pitching for the Chicago Cubs, successfully stole home making him the last National League pitcher to successfully steal home plate.

Did you know that stolen base records "officially" began (meaning records were kept) in 1898, the first recorded base stealing season?

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