Stolen Bases : 1904 American League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"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)
 

1904 Stolen Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Harry Bay 38 Cleveland Blues 1
Elmer Flick 38 Cleveland Blues  
Emmet Heidrick 35 St. Louis Browns 3
George Davis 32 Chicago White Sox 4
Wid Conroy 30 New York Highlanders 5
Nixey Callahan 29 Chicago White Sox 6
Nap Lajoie 29 Cleveland Blues  
Danny Green 28 Chicago White Sox 8
Fielder Jones 25 Chicago White Sox 9
Jake Stahl 25 Washington Senators  
Bill Bradley 23 Cleveland Blues 11
Charlie Hemphill 23 St. Louis Browns  
Dick Padden 23 St. Louis Browns  
Danny Murphy 22 Philadelphia Athletics 14
Bill O'Neill 22 Boston Americans  
Washington Senators  
Patsy Dougherty 21 Boston Americans 16
New York Highlanders  
Willie Keeler 21 New York Highlanders  
John Anderson 20 New York Highlanders 18
Sam Crawford 20 Detroit Tigers  
Freddy Parent 20 Boston Americans  
Bobby Wallace 20 St. Louis Browns  
Jimmy Collins 19 Boston Americans 22
Monte Cross 19 Philadelphia Athletics  
Gus Dundon 19 Chicago White Sox  
Topsy Hartsel 19 Philadelphia Athletics  



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.

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.