Total Bases : 1948 American 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:

"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)
 

1948 Total Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Joe DiMaggio 355 New York Yankees 1
Tommy Henrich 326 New York Yankees 2
Ted Williams 313 Boston Red Sox 3
Lou Boudreau 299 Cleveland Indians 4
Vern Stephens 299 Boston Red Sox  
Ken Keltner 291 Cleveland Indians 6
Joe Gordon 279 Cleveland Indians 7
Hank Majeski 268 Philadelphia Athletics 8
Bob Dillinger 267 St. Louis Browns 9
Bobby Doerr 266 Boston Red Sox 10
Dale Mitchell 262 Cleveland Indians 11
Dom DiMaggio 260 Boston Red Sox 12
Al Zarilla 255 St. Louis Browns 13
Pat Mullin 250 Detroit Tigers 14
Jerry Priddy 248 St. Louis Browns 15
Hoot Evers 244 Detroit Tigers 16
Yogi Berra 229 New York Yankees 17
Larry Doby 215 Cleveland Indians 18
Ferris Fain 206 Philadelphia Athletics 19
Johnny Pesky 206 Boston Red Sox  
George Vico 204 Detroit Tigers 21
Eddie Joost 201 Philadelphia Athletics 22
Eddie Robinson 201 Cleveland Indians  
Billy Johnson 199 New York Yankees 24
Barney McCosky 199 Philadelphia Athletics  



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.

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.

The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.