Total Bases : 1928 American League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)
 

1928 Total Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Babe Ruth 380 New York Yankees 1
Heinie Manush 367 St. Louis Browns 2
Lou Gehrig 364 New York Yankees 3
Earle Combs 290 New York Yankees 4
Harry Heilmann 283 Detroit Tigers 5
Goose Goslin 280 Washington Senators 6
Charlie Gehringer 272 Detroit Tigers 7
Sam Rice 270 Washington Senators 8
Al Simmons 259 Philadelphia Athletics 9
Lu Blue 250 St. Louis Browns 10
Joe Sewell 246 Cleveland Indians 11
Carl Lind 244 Cleveland Indians 12
Bob Meusel 242 New York Yankees 13
Bing Miller 240 Philadelphia Athletics 14
Fred Schulte 236 St. Louis Browns 15
Willie Kamm 227 Chicago White Sox 16
Joe Judge 226 Washington Senators 17
Mark Koenig 221 New York Yankees 18
Jimmie Foxx 219 Philadelphia Athletics 19
Phil Todt 219 Boston Red Sox  
Mickey Cochrane 217 Philadelphia Athletics 21
Harry Rice 217 Detroit Tigers  
Tony Lazzeri 216 New York Yankees 23
Marty McManus 215 Detroit Tigers 24
Buddy Myer 209 Boston Red Sox 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).

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.