Total Bases : 1970 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)
 

1970 Total Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Billy Williams 373 Chicago Cubs 1
Johnny Bench 355 Cincinnati Reds 2
Tony Perez 346 Cincinnati Reds 3
Bobby Bonds 334 San Francisco Giants 4
Cito Gaston 317 San Diego Padres 5
Joe Torre 311 St. Louis Cardinals 6
Orlando Cepeda 308 Atlanta Braves 7
Pete Rose 305 Cincinnati Reds 8
Willie McCovey 303 San Francisco Giants 9
Jim Hickman 299 Chicago Cubs 10
Tommie Agee 298 New York Mets 11
Hank Aaron 296 Atlanta Braves 12
Lee May 293 Cincinnati Reds 13
Nate Colbert 291 San Diego Padres 14
Rusty Staub 283 Montreal Expos 15
Wes Parker 281 Los Angeles Dodgers 16
Lou Brock 280 St. Louis Cardinals 17
Bobby Tolan 280 Cincinnati Reds  
Rico Carty 279 Atlanta Braves 19
Jimmy Wynn 273 Houston Astros 20
Ron Santo 264 Chicago Cubs 21
Deron Johnson 262 Philadelphia Phillies 22
Ollie Brown 261 San Diego Padres 23
Willie Davis 260 Los Angeles Dodgers 24
Dick Allen 257 St. Louis Cardinals 25



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.

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).