Home Runs : 1890 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)
 

1890 Home Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the American Association

Count Campau 9 St. Louis Browns 1
Ed Cartwright 8 St. Louis Browns 2
Denny Lyons 7 Philadelphia Athletics 3
Jack Stivetts 7 St. Louis Browns  
Tommy McCarthy 6 St. Louis Browns 5
Perry Werden 6 Toledo Maumees  
Sandy Griffin 5 Rochester Rochesters 7
Jimmy Knowles 5 Rochester Rochesters  
Jim Field 4 Rochester Rochesters 9
Deacon McGuire 4 Rochester Rochesters  
John Munyan 4 Columbus Colts  
St. Louis Browns  
Parson Nicholson 4 Toledo Maumees  
Billy O'Brien 4 Brooklyn Gladiators  
Jack O'Brien 4 Philadelphia Athletics  
Charlie Reilly 4 Columbus Colts  
Wilbert Robinson 4 Philadelphia Athletics  
Baltimore Orioles  
Jimmy Wolf 4 Louisville Colonels  
Charlie Duffee 3 St. Louis Browns 18
Pat Friel 3 Syracuse Stars  
Joe Gerhardt 3 Brooklyn Gladiators  
St. Louis Browns  
Tom Gettinger 3 St. Louis Browns  
Charlie Hamburg 3 Louisville Colonels  
Harry Lyons 3 Rochester Rochesters  
Ted Scheffler 3 Rochester Rochesters  
Ed Swartwood 3 Toledo Maumees  



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?

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.