Top 25 Shutouts in 1876 in the National League

Shutouts : 1876 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)

1876 Shutouts Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Shutouts Team Rank

George Bradley 16 St. Louis Brown Stockings 1

Al Spalding 8 Chicago White Stockings 2

Tommy Bond 6 Hartford Dark Blues 3

Candy Cummings 5 Hartford Dark Blues 4

Jim Devlin 5 Louisville Grays

Joe Borden 2 Boston Red Caps 6

Bobby Mathews 2 New York Mutuals

Foghorn Bradley 1 Boston Red Caps 8

George Zettlein 1 Philadelphia Athletics

Name Shutouts Team Rank

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).

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.

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