Top 25 Stolen Bases in 1966 in the American League

Stolen Bases : 1966 American League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)

1966 Stolen Bases Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Stolen Bases Team Rank

Bert Campaneris 52 Kansas City Athletics 1

Don Buford 51 Chicago White Sox 2

Tommie Agee 44 Chicago White Sox 3

Luis Aparicio 25 Baltimore Orioles 4

Jose Cardenal 24 California Angels 5

Fred Valentine 22 Washington Senators 6

Tommy McCraw 20 Chicago White Sox 7

Jose Tartabull 19 Kansas City Athletics 8

Boston Red Sox

Jim Fregosi 17 California Angels 9

Cesar Tovar 16 Minnesota Twins 10

Roy White 14 New York Yankees 11

Ken Harrelson 13 Kansas City Athletics 12

Washington Senators

Mike Hershberger 13 Kansas City Athletics

Tony Oliva 13 Minnesota Twins

Ed Charles 12 Kansas City Athletics 15

Chuck Hinton 10 Cleveland Indians 16

Chico Salmon 10 Cleveland Indians

Ted Uhlaender 10 Minnesota Twins

Zoilo Versalles 10 Minnesota Twins

Sam Bowens 9 Baltimore Orioles 20

Vic Davalillo 8 Cleveland Indians 21

Pedro Gonzalez 8 Cleveland Indians

Rick Reichardt 8 California Angels

Floyd Robinson 8 Chicago White Sox

Frank Robinson 8 Baltimore Orioles

Name Stolen Bases Team Rank

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).

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.

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