Hits : 1938 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:

"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)
 

1938 Hits Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Frank McCormick 209 Cincinnati Reds 1
Stan Hack 195 Chicago Cubs 2
Lloyd Waner 194 Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Joe Medwick 190 St. Louis Cardinals 4
Johnny Mize 179 St. Louis Cardinals 5
Paul Waner 175 Pittsburgh Pirates 6
Arky Vaughan 174 Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Billy Herman 173 Chicago Cubs 8
Ernie Lombardi 167 Cincinnati Reds 9
Johnny Rizzo 167 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Ival Goodman 166 Cincinnati Reds 11
Harry Craft 165 Cincinnati Reds 12
Mel Ott 164 New York Giants 13
Ernie Koy 156 Brooklyn Dodgers 14
Gus Suhr 156 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Pep Young 156 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Lee Handley 153 Pittsburgh Pirates 17
Jo-Jo Moore 153 New York Giants  
Carl Reynolds 150 Chicago Cubs 19
Tony Cuccinello 147 Boston Bees 20
Elbie Fletcher 144 Boston Bees 21
Don Gutteridge 141 St. Louis Cardinals 22
Hersh Martin 139 Philadelphia Phillies 23
Morrie Arnovich 138 Philadelphia Phillies 24
Harry Danning 137 New York Giants 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.

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.

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