Top 25 Stolen Bases in 1948 in the National League

Stolen Bases : 1948 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)

1948 Stolen Bases Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Stolen Bases Team Rank

Richie Ashburn 32 Philadelphia Phillies 1

Pee Wee Reese 25 Brooklyn Dodgers 2

Stan Rojek 24 Pittsburgh Pirates 3

Jackie Robinson 22 Brooklyn Dodgers 4

Earl Torgeson 19 Boston Braves 5

Gene Hermanski 15 Brooklyn Dodgers 6

Eddie Waitkus 11 Chicago Cubs 7

Danny Murtaugh 10 Pittsburgh Pirates 8

Buddy Kerr 9 New York Giants 9

Frank Baumholtz 8 Cincinnati Reds 10

Sid Gordon 8 New York Giants

Bert Haas 8 Philadelphia Phillies

Hal Jeffcoat 8 Chicago Cubs

Whitey Lockman 8 New York Giants

Marv Rackley 8 Brooklyn Dodgers

Putsy Caballero 7 Philadelphia Phillies 16

Grady Hatton 7 Cincinnati Reds

Gil Hodges 7 Brooklyn Dodgers

Stan Musial 7 St. Louis Cardinals

Johnny Wyrostek 7 Cincinnati Reds

Bobby Adams 6 Cincinnati Reds 21

Bob Elliott 6 Boston Braves

Carl Furillo 6 Brooklyn Dodgers

Ted Beard 5 Pittsburgh Pirates 24

Frankie Gustine 5 Pittsburgh Pirates

Name Stolen Bases Team Rank

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.

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.

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).

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