Total Bases : 1969 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)
 

1969 Total Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Hank Aaron 332 Atlanta Braves 1
Tony Perez 331 Cincinnati Reds 2
Willie McCovey 322 San Francisco Giants 3
Lee May 321 Cincinnati Reds 4
Pete Rose 321 Cincinnati Reds  
Billy Williams 304 Chicago Cubs 6
Bobby Tolan 302 Cincinnati Reds 7
Bobby Bonds 294 San Francisco Giants 8
Willie Stargell 290 Pittsburgh Pirates 9
Rusty Staub 289 Montreal Expos 10
Matty Alou 287 Pittsburgh Pirates 11
Lou Brock 284 St. Louis Cardinals 12
Ron Santo 279 Chicago Cubs 13
Roberto Clemente 276 Pittsburgh Pirates 14
Joe Torre 269 St. Louis Cardinals 15
Tommie Agee 262 New York Mets 16
Johnny Bench 259 Cincinnati Reds 17
Dick Allen 251 Philadelphia Phillies 18
Jimmy Wynn 251 Houston Astros  
Orlando Cepeda 245 Atlanta Braves 20
Don Kessinger 243 Chicago Cubs 21
Alex Johnson 242 Cincinnati Reds 22
Ernie Banks 235 Chicago Cubs 23
Ollie Brown 234 San Diego Padres 24
Nate Colbert 233 San Diego Padres 25



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.

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.

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.