Top 25 Total Bases in 1981 in the American League

Total Bases : 1981 American League Top 25

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"The baseball season - six months & 2,106 games - is flat out long, and it's a rare one of those games that doesn't ramble or sputter or digress or somehow violate the rules of dramatic narrative. Baseball takes its own sweet time reaching its conclusions." - Dwight Allen in Reds, Yanks and O's (1989)

1981 Total Bases Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Total Bases Team Rank

Dwight Evans 215 Boston Red Sox 1

Tony Armas 211 Oakland Athletics 2

Cecil Cooper 206 Milwaukee Brewers 3

Tom Paciorek 206 Seattle Mariners

Eddie Murray 202 Baltimore Orioles 5

Jim Rice 199 Boston Red Sox 6

Bobby Grich 191 California Angels 7

Rickey Henderson 185 Oakland Athletics 8

Greg Luzinski 180 Chicago White Sox 9

Dave Winfield 180 New York Yankees

Gorman Thomas 179 Milwaukee Brewers 11

Carney Lansford 175 Boston Red Sox 12

Al Oliver 173 Texas Rangers 13

Richie Zisk 173 Seattle Mariners

George Brett 168 Kansas City Royals 15

Dan Ford 165 California Angels 16

Don Baylor 161 California Angels 17

Chet Lemon 161 Chicago White Sox

Willie Aikens 160 Kansas City Royals 19

Rick Burleson 160 California Angels

Willie Wilson 160 Kansas City Royals

Dwayne Murphy 159 Oakland Athletics 22

Ben Oglivie 158 Milwaukee Brewers 23

Ken Singleton 158 Baltimore Orioles

Robin Yount 158 Milwaukee Brewers

Name Total Bases Team Rank

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.

The most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?

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).

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