Runs : 1908 National League Top 25

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"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)
 

1908 Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Fred Tenney 101 New York Giants 1
Honus Wagner 100 Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Tommy Leach 93 Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Fred Clarke 83 Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Johnny Evers 83 Chicago Cubs  
Sherry Magee 79 Philadelphia Phillies 6
John Titus 75 Philadelphia Phillies 7
Mike Donlin 71 New York Giants 8
Hans Lobert 71 Cincinnati Reds  
Roger Bresnahan 70 New York Giants 10
Eddie Grant 69 Philadelphia Phillies 11
Joe Tinker 67 Chicago Cubs 12
Ginger Beaumont 66 Boston Doves 13
Frank Chance 65 Chicago Cubs 14
Larry Doyle 65 New York Giants  
Miller Huggins 65 Cincinnati Reds  
Red Murray 64 St. Louis Cardinals 17
Otto Knabe 63 Philadelphia Phillies 18
Harry Steinfeldt 63 Chicago Cubs  
Fred Osborn 62 Philadelphia Phillies 20
George Browne 61 Boston Doves 21
John Kane 61 Cincinnati Reds  
Cy Seymour 60 New York Giants 23
Art Devlin 59 New York Giants 24
Tim Jordan 58 Brooklyn Superbas 25



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.

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).