Top 25 Runs in 1929 in the National League

Runs : 1929 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)

1929 Runs Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Runs Team Rank

Rogers Hornsby 156 Chicago Cubs 1

Lefty O'Doul 152 Philadelphia Phillies 2

Mel Ott 138 New York Giants 3

Hack Wilson 135 Chicago Cubs 4

Lloyd Waner 134 Pittsburgh Pirates 5

Woody English 131 Chicago Cubs 6

Paul Waner 131 Pittsburgh Pirates

Taylor Douthit 128 St. Louis Cardinals 8

Johnny Frederick 127 Brooklyn Robins 9

Chuck Klein 126 Philadelphia Phillies 10

Fresco Thompson 115 Philadelphia Phillies 11

Kiki Cuyler 111 Chicago Cubs 12

Jim Bottomley 108 St. Louis Cardinals 13

Babe Herman 105 Brooklyn Robins 14

Bill Terry 103 New York Giants 15

Dick Bartell 101 Pittsburgh Pirates 16

Chick Hafey 101 St. Louis Cardinals

Don Hurst 100 Philadelphia Phillies 18

Evar Swanson 100 Cincinnati Reds

Freddie Lindstrom 99 New York Giants 20

Andy High 95 St. Louis Cardinals 21

Pie Traynor 94 Pittsburgh Pirates 22

Frankie Frisch 93 St. Louis Cardinals 23

Travis Jackson 92 New York Giants 24

Riggs Stephenson 91 Chicago Cubs 25

Name Runs Team Rank

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).

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?

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.

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