Total Bases : 1901 National League Top 25

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"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)
 

1901 Total Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Jesse Burkett 306 St. Louis Cardinals 1
Jimmy Sheckard 296 Brooklyn Superbas 2
Ed Delahanty 286 Philadelphia Phillies 3
Honus Wagner 271 Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Sam Crawford 270 Cincinnati Reds 5
Elmer Flick 270 Philadelphia Phillies  
Topsy Hartsel 265 Chicago Orphans 7
Willie Keeler 250 Brooklyn Superbas 8
Jake Beckley 249 Cincinnati Reds 9
Bobby Wallace 248 St. Louis Cardinals 10
Fred Clarke 243 Pittsburgh Pirates 11
Emmet Heidrick 236 St. Louis Cardinals 12
Ginger Beaumont 233 Pittsburgh Pirates 13
Tom Daly 231 Brooklyn Superbas 14
Danny Green 226 Chicago Orphans 15
Kitty Bransfield 225 Pittsburgh Pirates 16
George Van Haltren 220 New York Giants 17
Gene DeMontreville 210 Boston Beaneaters 18
George Davis 209 New York Giants 19
Joe Kelley 209 Brooklyn Superbas  
Patsy Donovan 197 St. Louis Cardinals 21
Claude Ritchey 191 Pittsburgh Pirates 22
Otto Krueger 189 St. Louis Cardinals 23
Kip Selbach 189 New York Giants  
Bill Dahlen 183 Brooklyn Superbas 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.

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.

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.