Stolen Bases : 1960 National 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:

"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)
 

1960 Stolen Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Maury Wills 50 Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Vada Pinson 32 Cincinnati Reds 2
Tony Taylor 26 Chicago Cubs 3
Philadelphia Phillies  
Willie Mays 25 San Francisco Giants 4
Bill Bruton 22 Milwaukee Braves 5
Julian Javier 19 St. Louis Cardinals 6
Hank Aaron 16 Milwaukee Braves 7
Richie Ashburn 16 Chicago Cubs  
Orlando Cepeda 15 San Francisco Giants 9
Don Blasingame 14 San Francisco Giants 10
Frank Robinson 13 Cincinnati Reds 11
Jim Gilliam 12 Los Angeles Dodgers 12
Willie Kirkland 12 San Francisco Giants  
Bill White 12 St. Louis Cardinals  
Bob Skinner 11 Pittsburgh Pirates 15
Felipe Alou 10 San Francisco Giants 16
Eddie Kasko 9 Cincinnati Reds 17
Ken Boyer 8 St. Louis Cardinals 18
Bill Virdon 8 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Don Zimmer 8 Chicago Cubs  
Elio Chacon 7 Cincinnati Reds 21
Eddie Mathews 7 Milwaukee Braves  
Johnny Roseboro 7 Los Angeles Dodgers  
Tommy Davis 6 Los Angeles Dodgers 24
Wally Moon 6 Los Angeles Dodgers  



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.