On Base Percentage : 1956 National League Top 25

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"When you're playing 162 baseball games, you're playing almost every day, it's nice to have a guy (Jose Lima) like that around to lighten things up and have fun. It's a huge plus for us." - Detroit Tigers Pitcher Matt Anderson
 

1956 On Base Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Duke Snider .399 (.39938) Brooklyn Dodgers 1
Jim Gilliam .399 (.39856) Brooklyn Dodgers 2
Wally Moon .390 (.38969) St. Louis Cardinals 3
Stan Musial .386 (.38586) St. Louis Cardinals 4
Richie Ashburn .384 (.38429) Philadelphia Phillies 5
Willie Jones .384 (.38350) Philadelphia Phillies 6
Frank Robinson .379 (.37879) Cincinnati Redlegs 7
Eddie Mathews .373 (.37346) Milwaukee Braves 8
Willie Mays .369 (.36923) New York Giants 9
Roy McMillan .366 (.36572) Cincinnati Redlegs 10
Hank Aaron .365 (.36489) Milwaukee Braves 11
Ted Kluszewski .362 (.36237) Cincinnati Redlegs 12
Bill Virdon .361 (.36116) St. Louis Cardinals 13
Pittsburgh Pirates  
Ernie Banks .358 (.35750) Chicago Cubs 14
Carl Furillo .357 (.35726) Brooklyn Dodgers 15
Red Schoendienst .356 (.35647) St. Louis Cardinals 16
New York Giants  
Gil Hodges .354 (.35350) Brooklyn Dodgers 17
Stan Lopata .353 (.35323) Philadelphia Phillies 18
Walt Moryn .348 (.34753) Chicago Cubs 19
Gus Bell .348 (.34750) Cincinnati Redlegs 20
Ken Boyer .347 (.34694) St. Louis Cardinals 21
Lee Walls .345 (.34470) Pittsburgh Pirates 22
Don Blasingame .344 (.34389) St. Louis Cardinals 23
Johnny Temple .344 (.34388) Cincinnati Redlegs 24
Danny O'Connell .342 (.34192) Milwaukee Braves 25



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

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).