On Base Percentage : 1890 Players 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
 

1890 On Base Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the Players League

Dan Brouthers .466 (.46620) Boston Red Stockings 1
Pete Browning .459 (.45884) Cleveland Infants 2
Roger Connor .450 (.45026) New York Giants 3
Yank Robinson .434 (.43405) Pittsburgh Burghers 4
George Gore .432 (.43215) New York Giants 5
King Kelly .419 (.41878) Boston Red Stockings 6
Henry Larkin .419 (.41852) Cleveland Infants 7
Dummy Hoy .418 (.41849) Buffalo Bisons 8
Fred Carroll .418 (.41833) Pittsburgh Burghers 9
Jimmy Ryan .416 (.41636) Chicago Pirates 10
Dave Orr .414 (.41365) Brooklyn Wonders 11
Bill Joyce .413 (.41346) Brooklyn Wonders 12
Jim O'Rourke .410 (.41040) New York Giants 13
Paul Radford .406 (.40647) Cleveland Infants 14
Harry Stovey .406 (.40564) Boston Red Stockings 15
Buck Ewing .406 (.40561) New York Giants 16
George Van Haltren .405 (.40476) Brooklyn Wonders 17
John Ward .393 (.39251) Brooklyn Wonders 18
Ned Hanlon .389 (.38889) Pittsburgh Burghers 19
Hardy Richardson .384 (.38386) Boston Red Stockings 20
Hugh Duffy .384 (.38356) Chicago Pirates 21
Billy Nash .383 (.38276) Boston Red Stockings 22
Sy Sutcliffe .382 (.38186) Cleveland Infants 23
Jake Beckley .381 (.38121) Pittsburgh Burghers 24
Deacon White .381 (.38095) Buffalo Bisons 25



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.

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.