Triples : 1890 American Association 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)
 

1890 Triples Leaders

Top 25 in the American Association

Perry Werden 20 Toledo Maumees 1
Spud Johnson 18 Columbus Colts 2
Billy Alvord 16 Toledo Maumees 3
John Sneed 15 Toledo Maumees 4
Columbus Colts  
Cupid Childs 14 Syracuse Stars 5
Jack O'Brien 14 Philadelphia Athletics  
Hank Simon 14 Brooklyn Gladiators  
Syracuse Stars  
Count Campau 12 St. Louis Browns 8
Harry Lyons 11 Rochester Rochesters 9
Parson Nicholson 11 Toledo Maumees  
Tim Shinnick 11 Louisville Colonels  
Ed Swartwood 11 Toledo Maumees  
Bill Van Dyke 11 Toledo Maumees  
Jimmy Wolf 11 Louisville Colonels  
Jack O'Connor 10 Columbus Colts 15
George Tebeau 10 Toledo Maumees  
Ed Daily 9 Brooklyn Gladiators 17
Louisville Colonels  
Shorty Fuller 9 St. Louis Browns  
John Grim 9 Rochester Rochesters  
Tommy McCarthy 9 St. Louis Browns  
John Peltz 9 Brooklyn Gladiators  
Syracuse Stars  
Toledo Maumees  
Farmer Weaver 9 Louisville Colonels  
Jimmy Knowles 8 Rochester Rochesters 23
Billy O'Brien 8 Brooklyn Gladiators  
Jack Doyle 7 Columbus Colts 25



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.

The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

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.