Runs : 1886 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)
 

1886 Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

King Kelly 155 Chicago White Stockings 1
George Gore 150 Chicago White Stockings 2
Dan Brouthers 139 Detroit Wolverines 3
Hardy Richardson 125 Detroit Wolverines 4
Cap Anson 117 Chicago White Stockings 5
Jim O'Rourke 106 New York Giants 6
Roger Connor 105 New York Giants 7
Ned Hanlon 105 Detroit Wolverines  
Sam Thompson 101 Detroit Wolverines 9
Jack Rowe 97 Detroit Wolverines 10
Jack Glasscock 96 St. Louis Maroons 11
Ed Andrews 93 Philadelphia Phillies 12
Fred Pfeffer 88 Chicago White Stockings 13
John Morrill 86 Boston Beaneaters 14
Fred Dunlap 85 St. Louis Maroons 15
Detroit Wolverines  
Ezra Sutton 83 Boston Beaneaters 16
John Ward 82 New York Giants 17
George Wood 81 Philadelphia Phillies 18
Paul Hines 80 Washington Senators 19
Paul Radford 78 Kansas City Cowboys 20
Alex McKinnon 75 St. Louis Maroons 21
Cliff Carroll 73 Washington Senators 22
Emmett Seery 73 St. Louis Maroons  
Tom Poorman 72 Boston Beaneaters 24
Joe Mulvey 71 Philadelphia Phillies 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.

The most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?