Runs : 1901 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
 

1901 Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Jesse Burkett 142 St. Louis Cardinals 1
Willie Keeler 123 Brooklyn Superbas 2
Ginger Beaumont 120 Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Fred Clarke 118 Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Jimmy Sheckard 116 Brooklyn Superbas 5
Elmer Flick 112 Philadelphia Phillies 6
Topsy Hartsel 111 Chicago Orphans 7
Ed Delahanty 106 Philadelphia Phillies 8
Roy Thomas 102 Philadelphia Phillies 9
Honus Wagner 101 Pittsburgh Pirates 10
Lefty Davis 98 Brooklyn Superbas 11
Pittsburgh Pirates  
Emmet Heidrick 94 St. Louis Cardinals 12
Kitty Bransfield 92 Pittsburgh Pirates 13
Patsy Donovan 92 St. Louis Cardinals  
Sam Crawford 91 Cincinnati Reds 15
Kip Selbach 89 New York Giants 16
Tom Daly 88 Brooklyn Superbas 17
Gene DeMontreville 83 Boston Beaneaters 18
Danny Green 82 Chicago Orphans 19
George Van Haltren 82 New York Giants  
Jake Beckley 78 Cincinnati Reds 21
Joe Kelley 77 Brooklyn Superbas 22
Otto Krueger 77 St. Louis Cardinals  
Dan McGann 73 St. Louis Cardinals 24
John Dobbs 71 Cincinnati Reds 25



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).

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.