Top 25 Stolen Bases in 1965 in the American League

Stolen Bases : 1965 American 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)

1965 Stolen Bases Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Stolen Bases Team Rank

Bert Campaneris 51 Kansas City Athletics 1

Jose Cardenal 37 California Angels 2

Zoilo Versalles 27 Minnesota Twins 3

Luis Aparicio 26 Baltimore Orioles 4

Vic Davalillo 26 Cleveland Indians

Tony Oliva 19 Minnesota Twins 6

Don Buford 17 Chicago White Sox 7

Chuck Hinton 17 Cleveland Indians

Dick Howser 17 Cleveland Indians

Jimmie Hall 14 Minnesota Twins 10

Ed Charles 13 Kansas City Athletics 11

Jim Fregosi 13 California Angels

Max Alvis 12 Cleveland Indians 13

Tommy McCraw 12 Chicago White Sox

Albie Pearson 12 California Angels

Leon Wagner 12 Cleveland Indians

Jose Tartabull 11 Kansas City Athletics 17

Bob Allison 10 Minnesota Twins 18

Ken Harrelson 9 Kansas City Athletics 19

Tommie Reynolds 9 Kansas City Athletics

Willie Smith 9 California Angels

Paul Blair 8 Baltimore Orioles 22

Lenny Green 8 Boston Red Sox

Ken Hamlin 8 Washington Senators

Dalton Jones 8 Boston Red Sox

Name Stolen Bases Team Rank

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?

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.

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