Home Runs : 1877 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 baseball season - six months & 2,106 games - is flat out long, and it's a rare one of those games that doesn't ramble or sputter or digress or somehow violate the rules of dramatic narrative. Baseball takes its own sweet time reaching its conclusions." - Dwight Allen in Reds, Yanks and O's (1989)
 

1877 Home Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Lip Pike 4 Cincinnati Red Stockings 1
Orator Shafer 3 Louisville Grays 2
Charley Jones 2 Cincinnati Red Stockings 3
Chicago White Stockings  
Pop Snyder 2 Louisville Grays  
Deacon White 2 Boston Red Caps  
Joe Battin 1 St. Louis Brown Stockings 6
Lew Brown 1 Boston Red Caps  
Tom Carey 1 Hartford Dark Blues  
Bill Crowley 1 Louisville Grays  
Jim Devlin 1 Louisville Grays  
Joe Gerhardt 1 Louisville Grays  
Bill Hague 1 Louisville Grays  
Terry Larkin 1 Hartford Dark Blues  
Tim Murnane 1 Boston Red Caps  
Joe Start 1 Hartford Dark Blues  
Tom York 1 Hartford Dark Blues  



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.

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?