Slugging Average : 1877 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:

"When you're playing 162 baseball games, you're playing almost every day, it's nice to have a guy (Jose Lima) like that around to lighten things up and have fun. It's a huge plus for us." - Detroit Tigers Pitcher Matt Anderson
 

1877 Slugging Average Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Deacon White .545 (.54511) Boston Red Caps 1
Charley Jones .471 (.47083) Cincinnati Red Stockings 2
Chicago White Stockings  
John Cassidy .458 (.45817) Hartford Dark Blues 3
Cal McVey .455 (.45489) Chicago White Stockings 4
Jim O'Rourke .445 (.44528) Boston Red Caps 5
George Hall .439 (.43866) Louisville Grays 6
Jack Manning .437 (.43651) Cincinnati Red Stockings 7
Tom York .422 (.42194) Hartford Dark Blues 8
Lip Pike .420 (.41985) Cincinnati Red Stockings 9
Cap Anson .420 (.41961) Chicago White Stockings 10
Joe Start .399 (.39852) Hartford Dark Blues 11
Mike Dorgan .395 (.39474) St. Louis Brown Stockings 12
Lew Brown .394 (.39367) Boston Red Caps 13
Orator Shafer .392 (.39231) Louisville Grays 14
John Clapp .388 (.38824) St. Louis Brown Stockings 15
Joe Gerhardt .380 (.38000) Louisville Grays 16
Ezra Sutton .379 (.37945) Boston Red Caps 17
John Peters .377 (.37736) Chicago White Stockings 18
Paul Hines .375 (.37548) Chicago White Stockings 19
Juice Latham .371 (.37050) Louisville Grays 20
Bill Crowley .357 (.35714) Louisville Grays 21
George Wright .334 (.33448) Boston Red Caps 22
Al Spalding .331 (.33071) Chicago White Stockings 23
John Morrill .331 (.33058) Boston Red Caps 24
Pop Snyder .327 (.32661) Louisville Grays 25



Did you know that more than forty players have worn the number twenty-five for the Boston Red Sox — including Jack Clark, Denny Galehouse, Dizzy Trout and Tony Conigliaro.

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).