Triples : 1908 National League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)
 

1908 Triples Leaders

Top 25 in the National League
Honus Wagner 19 Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Hans Lobert 18 Cincinnati Reds 2
Tommy Leach 16 Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Sherry Magee 16 Philadelphia Phillies  
Fred Clarke 15 Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Red Murray 15 St. Louis Cardinals  
Joe Tinker 14 Chicago Cubs 7
Mike Donlin 13 New York Giants 8
John Hummel 12 Brooklyn Superbas 9
Ed Konetchy 12 St. Louis Cardinals  
Harry Lumley 12 Brooklyn Superbas  
Fred Osborn 12 Philadelphia Phillies  
Joe Delahanty 11 St. Louis Cardinals 13
John Ganzel 10 Cincinnati Reds 14
Roy Thomas 10 Philadelphia Phillies  
Pittsburgh Pirates  
Larry Doyle 9 New York Giants 16
Eddie Grant 8 Philadelphia Phillies 17
Otto Knabe 8 Philadelphia Phillies  
Ed Abbaticchio 7 Pittsburgh Pirates 19
Kitty Bransfield 7 Philadelphia Phillies  
Rudy Hulswitt 7 Cincinnati Reds  
John Kane 7 Cincinnati Reds  
Billy Maloney 7 Brooklyn Superbas  
Chief Wilson 7 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Johnny Bates 6 Boston Doves 25



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 most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?
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