Total Bases : 1918 American League Top 25

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1918 Total Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

George Burns 236 Philadelphia Athletics 1
Ty Cobb 217 Detroit Tigers 2
Frank Baker 206 New York Yankees 3
Tris Speaker 205 Cleveland Indians 4
George Sisler 199 St. Louis Browns 5
Bobby Veach 195 Detroit Tigers 6
Harry Hooper 192 Boston Red Sox 7
Babe Ruth 176 Boston Red Sox 8
Tilly Walker 175 Philadelphia Athletics 9
Clyde Milan 174 Washington Senators 10
Joe Judge 171 Washington Senators 11
Del Pratt 170 New York Yankees 12
Joe Wood 170 Cleveland Indians  
Larry Gardner 169 Philadelphia Athletics 14
Eddie Foster 166 Washington Senators 15
Burt Shotton 162 Washington Senators 16
Jack Tobin 162 St. Louis Browns  
Ray Chapman 157 Cleveland Indians 18
Braggo Roth 154 Cleveland Indians 19
Ray Demmitt 150 St. Louis Browns 20
Doc Lavan 150 Washington Senators  
Buck Weaver 148 Chicago White Sox 22
Chick Gandil 145 Chicago White Sox 23
Wally Pipp 145 New York Yankees  
Frank Gilhooley 144 New York Yankees 25



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).

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.