Slugging Average : 1891 National League Top 25

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"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
 

1891 Slugging Average Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Harry Stovey .498 (.49816) Boston Beaneaters 1
Mike Tiernan .494 (.49446) New York Giants 2
Bug Holliday .473 (.47285) Cincinnati Reds 3
Roger Connor .449 (.44885) New York Giants 4
Jimmy Ryan .434 (.43366) Chicago Colts 5
Jack Clements .426 (.42553) Philadelphia Phillies 6
Pete Browning .422 (.42243) Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Cincinnati Reds  
Billy Hamilton .421 (.42125) Philadelphia Phillies 8
Jake Beckley .419 (.41877) Pittsburgh Pirates 9
Oyster Burns .417 (.41702) Brooklyn Bridegrooms 10
Sam Thompson .410 (.40975) Philadelphia Phillies 11
Walt Wilmot .410 (.40964) Chicago Colts 12
Cap Anson .409 (.40926) Chicago Colts 13
George Davis .409 (.40877) Cleveland Spiders 14
Herman Long .407 (.40728) Boston Beaneaters 15
Jim O'Rourke .398 (.39820) New York Giants 16
Bill Dahlen .390 (.38980) Chicago Colts 17
Mike Griffin .388 (.38772) Brooklyn Bridegrooms 18
Arlie Latham .386 (.38649) Cincinnati Reds 19
Billy Nash .382 (.38175) Boston Beaneaters 20
Cupid Childs .374 (.37387) Cleveland Spiders 21
Ed McKean .373 (.37313) Cleveland Spiders 22
Bid McPhee .370 (.37011) Cincinnati Reds 23
Darby O'Brien .367 (.36709) Brooklyn Bridegrooms 24
Cliff Carroll .367 (.36699) Chicago Colts 25



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.