Doubles : 1887 American Association Top 25

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"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)
 

1887 Doubles Leaders

Top 25 in the American Association

Tip O'Neill 52 St. Louis Browns 1
Denny Lyons 43 Philadelphia Athletics 2
Pete Browning 35 Louisville Colonels 3
Arlie Latham 35 St. Louis Browns  
John Reilly 35 Cincinnati Red Stockings  
Bill Phillips 34 Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers 6
Oyster Burns 33 Baltimore Orioles 7
Mike Griffin 32 Baltimore Orioles 8
Yank Robinson 32 St. Louis Browns  
Curt Welch 32 St. Louis Browns  
Harry Stovey 31 Philadelphia Athletics 11
Darby O'Brien 30 New York Metropolitans 12
Frank Hankinson 29 New York Metropolitans 13
Fred Mann 29 Cleveland Blues  
Philadelphia Athletics  
Pete Hotaling 28 Cleveland Blues 15
Jocko Milligan 27 Philadelphia Athletics 16
Jimmy Wolf 27 Louisville Colonels  
Dave Foutz 26 St. Louis Browns 18
George Pinkney 26 Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers  
Dave Orr 25 New York Metropolitans 20
Blondie Purcell 25 Baltimore Orioles  
Bill McClellan 24 Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers 22
Bob Caruthers 23 St. Louis Browns 23
Jumbo Davis 23 Baltimore Orioles  
Reddy Mack 23 Louisville Colonels  



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.

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.

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.