Strikeouts : 1958 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)
 

1958 Strikeouts Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Sam Jones 225 St. Louis Cardinals 1
Warren Spahn 150 Milwaukee Braves 2
Johnny Antonelli 143 San Francisco Giants 3
Johnny Podres 143 Los Angeles Dodgers  
Bob Friend 135 Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Don Drysdale 131 Los Angeles Dodgers 6
Sandy Koufax 131 Los Angeles Dodgers  
Robin Roberts 130 Philadelphia Phillies 8
Dick Drott 127 Chicago Cubs 9
Larry Jackson 124 St. Louis Cardinals 10
Stu Miller 119 San Francisco Giants 11
Lew Burdette 113 Milwaukee Braves 12
Ruben Gomez 112 San Francisco Giants 13
Joe Nuxhall 111 Cincinnati Redlegs 14
Harvey Haddix 110 Cincinnati Redlegs 15
Ron Kline 109 Pittsburgh Pirates 16
Jack Sanford 106 Philadelphia Phillies 17
Taylor Phillips 102 Chicago Cubs 18
Johnny Klippstein 95 Cincinnati Redlegs 19
Los Angeles Dodgers  
Ramon Monzant 93 San Francisco Giants 20
Ray Semproch 92 Philadelphia Phillies 21
Glen Hobbie 91 Chicago Cubs 22
Tom Acker 90 Cincinnati Redlegs 23
Jim Brosnan 89 Chicago Cubs 24
St. Louis Cardinals  
Jack Meyer 87 Philadelphia Phillies 25



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

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.