Strikeouts : 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 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)
 

1876 Strikeouts Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Jim Devlin 122 Louisville Grays 1
George Bradley 103 St. Louis Brown Stockings 2
Tommy Bond 88 Hartford Dark Blues 3
Al Spalding 39 Chicago White Stockings 4
Bobby Mathews 37 New York Mutuals 5
Joe Borden 34 Boston Red Caps 6
Cherokee Fisher 29 Cincinnati Red Stockings 7
Candy Cummings 26 Hartford Dark Blues 8
Jack Manning 24 Boston Red Caps 9
Dory Dean 22 Cincinnati Red Stockings 10
Foghorn Bradley 16 Boston Red Caps 11
Lon Knight 12 Philadelphia Athletics 12
George Zettlein 10 Philadelphia Athletics 13
Cal McVey 9 Chicago White Stockings 14
Dale Williams 9 Cincinnati Red Stockings  
Deacon White 3 Chicago White Stockings 16
Dick McBride 2 Boston Red Caps 17
Jim Clinton 1 Louisville Grays 18
Frank Pearce 1 Louisville Grays  
Johnny Ryan 1 Louisville Grays  
George Wright 1 Boston Red Caps  



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.

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

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?