Runs : 1876 National League Top 25

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"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 Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Ross Barnes 126 Chicago White Stockings 1
George Wright 72 Boston Red Caps 2
John Peters 70 Chicago White Stockings 3
Jack Burdock 66 Hartford Dark Blues 4
Deacon White 66 Chicago White Stockings  
Cap Anson 63 Chicago White Stockings 6
Paul Hines 62 Chicago White Stockings 7
Cal McVey 62 Chicago White Stockings  
Jack Remsen 62 Hartford Dark Blues  
Jim O'Rourke 61 Boston Red Caps 10
John Clapp 60 St. Louis Brown Stockings 11
Tim Murnane 60 Boston Red Caps  
Dick Higham 59 Hartford Dark Blues 13
John Glenn 55 Chicago White Stockings 14
Lip Pike 55 St. Louis Brown Stockings  
Al Spalding 54 Chicago White Stockings 16
Andy Leonard 53 Boston Red Caps 17
Jack Manning 52 Boston Red Caps 18
Tom Carey 51 Hartford Dark Blues 19
George Hall 51 Philadelphia Athletics  
Bob Ferguson 48 Hartford Dark Blues 21
Davy Force 48 Philadelphia Athletics  
New York Mutuals  
Mike McGeary 48 St. Louis Brown Stockings  
Harry Schafer 47 Boston Red Caps 24
Fred Treacey 47 New York Mutuals  



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.

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