Earned Run Average : 1876 National League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"The guys who made up this schedule must have been in a room with a bottle of Wild Turkey and 40 straws." - Dave Bergman
 

1876 Earned Run Average Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

George Bradley 1.23 (1.2251) St. Louis Brown Stockings 1
Jim Devlin 1.56 (1.5627) Louisville Grays 2
Candy Cummings 1.67 (1.6667) Hartford Dark Blues 3
Tommy Bond 1.68 (1.6765) Hartford Dark Blues 4
Al Spalding 1.75 (1.7535) Chicago White Stockings 5
Jack Manning 2.14 (2.1436) Boston Red Caps 6
Foghorn Bradley 2.49 (2.4923) Boston Red Caps 7
Lon Knight 2.62 (2.6170) Philadelphia Athletics 8
Bobby Mathews 2.86 (2.8605) New York Mutuals 9
Joe Borden 2.89 (2.8855) Boston Red Caps 10
Cherokee Fisher 3.02 (3.0218) Cincinnati Red Stockings 11
Dory Dean 3.73 (3.7348) Cincinnati Red Stockings 12
George Zettlein 3.88 (3.8846) Philadelphia Athletics 13
Dale Williams 4.23 (4.2289) Cincinnati Red Stockings 14



The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

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.

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.