Top 25 On Base Percentage in 1890 in the American Association

On Base Percentage : 1890 American Association Top 25

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"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)

1890 On Base Percentage Leaders
Top 25 in the American Association

Name On Base Percentage Team Rank

Denny Lyons .461 (.46059) Philadelphia Athletics 1

Ed Swartwood .444 (.44365) Toledo Maumees 2

Cupid Childs .434 (.43433) Syracuse Stars 3

Tommy McCarthy .430 (.43040) St. Louis Browns 4

Rasty Wright .428 (.42790) Syracuse Stars 5

Jimmy Wolf .421 (.42140) Louisville Colonels 6

Spud Johnson .409 (.40940) Columbus Colts 7

Jim McTamany .406 (.40550) Columbus Colts 8

Perry Werden .404 (.40407) Toledo Maumees 9

Sandy Griffin .388 (.38829) Rochester Rochesters 10

Mox McQuery .383 (.38298) Syracuse Stars 11

Harry Taylor .383 (.38264) Louisville Colonels 12

John Sneed .382 (.38215) Toledo Maumees 13

Columbus Colts

Shorty Fuller .377 (.37705) St. Louis Browns 14

Jack O'Connor .377 (.37702) Columbus Colts 15

Ted Scheffler .374 (.37430) Rochester Rochesters 16

Curt Welch .372 (.37230) Philadelphia Athletics 17

Baltimore Orioles

Charlie Hamburg .370 (.36964) Louisville Colonels 18

Orator Shafer .367 (.36652) Philadelphia Athletics 19

Jimmy Knowles .359 (.35935) Rochester Rochesters 20

George Tebeau .359 (.35862) Toledo Maumees 21

Jack Crooks .357 (.35714) Columbus Colts 22

Phil Tomney .357 (.35714) Louisville Colonels

Jack O'Brien .356 (.35614) Philadelphia Athletics 24

Frank Scheibeck .350 (.34982) Toledo Maumees 25

Name On Base Percentage Team Rank

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.

Jim Thome wore number twenty-five since he first came up with the Cleveland Indians making him the franchise record holder for that particular number (Mike Garcia is second).

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.

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