Total Bases : 1877 National 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)
 

1877 Total Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Deacon White 145 Boston Red Caps 1
Cal McVey 121 Chicago White Stockings 2
George Hall 118 Louisville Grays 3
Jim O'Rourke 118 Boston Red Caps  
John Cassidy 115 Hartford Dark Blues 5
Charley Jones 113 Cincinnati Red Stockings 6
Chicago White Stockings  
Jack Manning 110 Cincinnati Red Stockings 7
Lip Pike 110 Cincinnati Red Stockings  
Joe Start 108 Hartford Dark Blues 9
Cap Anson 107 Chicago White Stockings 10
Mike Dorgan 105 St. Louis Brown Stockings 11
Juice Latham 103 Louisville Grays 12
Orator Shafer 102 Louisville Grays 13
John Peters 100 Chicago White Stockings 14
Tom York 100 Hartford Dark Blues  
John Clapp 99 St. Louis Brown Stockings 16
Paul Hines 98 Chicago White Stockings 17
George Wright 97 Boston Red Caps 18
Ezra Sutton 96 Boston Red Caps 19
Joe Gerhardt 95 Louisville Grays 20
Lew Brown 87 Boston Red Caps 21
Jim Devlin 87 Louisville Grays  
Bill Crowley 85 Louisville Grays 23
Al Spalding 84 Chicago White Stockings 24
Andy Leonard 83 Boston Red Caps 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.

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.