Total Bases : 1968 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:

"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)
 

1968 Total Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Billy Williams 321 Chicago Cubs 1
Hank Aaron 302 Atlanta Braves 2
Pete Rose 294 Cincinnati Reds 3
Felipe Alou 290 Atlanta Braves 4
Willie McCovey 285 San Francisco Giants 5
Lou Brock 276 St. Louis Cardinals 6
Dick Allen 271 Philadelphia Phillies 7
Tony Perez 269 Cincinnati Reds 8
Lee May 262 Cincinnati Reds 9
Ernie Banks 259 Chicago Cubs 10
Jimmy Wynn 257 Houston Astros 11
Johnny Bench 244 Cincinnati Reds 12
Willie Mays 243 San Francisco Giants 13
Ron Santo 243 Chicago Cubs  
Roberto Clemente 242 Pittsburgh Pirates 15
Alex Johnson 238 Cincinnati Reds 16
Glenn Beckert 237 Chicago Cubs 17
Donn Clendenon 233 Pittsburgh Pirates 18
Mike Shannon 231 St. Louis Cardinals 19
Cleon Jones 230 New York Mets 20
Rusty Staub 229 Houston Astros 21
Orlando Cepeda 227 St. Louis Cardinals 22
Willie Davis 226 Los Angeles Dodgers 23
Curt Flood 226 St. Louis Cardinals  
Matty Alou 221 Pittsburgh Pirates 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.

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).