Total Bases : 1955 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:

"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)
 

1955 Total Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Al Kaline 321 Detroit Tigers 1
Mickey Mantle 316 New York Yankees 2
Vic Power 301 Kansas City Athletics 3
Al Smith 287 Cleveland Indians 4
Jackie Jensen 275 Boston Red Sox 5
Harvey Kuenn 262 Detroit Tigers 6
Nellie Fox 258 Chicago White Sox 7
Yogi Berra 254 New York Yankees 8
Roy Sievers 249 Washington Senators 9
Larry Doby 248 Cleveland Indians 10
Mickey Vernon 243 Washington Senators 11
Bill Tuttle 241 Detroit Tigers 12
Ray Boone 238 Detroit Tigers 13
Hank Bauer 227 New York Yankees 14
Ted Williams 225 Boston Red Sox 15
Jimmy Piersall 220 Boston Red Sox 16
Minnie Minoso 219 Chicago White Sox 17
Gil McDougald 217 New York Yankees 18
Bobby Avila 215 Cleveland Indians 19
Sammy White 213 Boston Red Sox 20
Billy Goodman 211 Boston Red Sox 21
Jim Finigan 210 Kansas City Athletics 22
Gus Zernial 210 Kansas City Athletics  
Norm Zauchin 205 Boston Red Sox 24
Billy Klaus 204 Boston Red Sox 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.

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.