Doubles : 1884 Union Association Top 25

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"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)
 

1884 Doubles Leaders

Top 25 in the Union Association

Orator Shafer 40 St. Louis Maroons 1
Fred Dunlap 39 St. Louis Maroons 2
Dave Rowe 32 St. Louis Maroons 3
Tom O'Brien 31 Boston Unions 4
Jack Gleason 30 St. Louis Maroons 5
Emmett Seery 26 Baltimore Monumentals 6
Kansas City Unions  
Yank Robinson 24 Baltimore Monumentals 7
Jumbo Schoeneck 24 Chicago Browns  
Pittsburgh Stogies  
Baltimore Monumentals  
Ed Crane 23 Boston Unions 9
Harry Moore 23 Washington Nationals  
Billy Taylor 23 St. Louis Maroons  
John Irwin 22 Boston Unions 12
Joe Quinn 21 St. Louis Maroons 13
Buster Hoover 20 Philadelphia Keystones 14
Jerry McCormick 20 Philadelphia Keystones  
Washington Nationals  
Walter Hackett 19 Boston Unions 16
Frank McLaughlin 19 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds  
Chicago Browns  
Kansas City Unions  
Lew Brown 18 Boston Unions 18
Dick Burns 17 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds 19
Bill Wise 17 Washington Nationals  
Eddie Fusselback 16 Baltimore Monumentals 21
Lou Say 16 Baltimore Monumentals  
Kansas City Unions  
Kid Butler 15 Boston Unions 23
Buttercup Dickerson 15 St. Louis Maroons  
Bill Krieg 15 Chicago Browns  
Pittsburgh Stogies  



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.

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).