Triples : 1950 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)
 

1950 Triples Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Richie Ashburn 14 Philadelphia Phillies 1
Gus Bell 11 Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Duke Snider 10 Brooklyn Dodgers 3
Red Schoendienst 9 St. Louis Cardinals 4
Roy Smalley 9 Chicago Cubs  
Bobby Adams 8 Cincinnati Reds 6
Del Ennis 8 Philadelphia Phillies  
Bill Howerton 8 St. Louis Cardinals  
Sam Jethroe 8 Boston Braves  
Andy Pafko 8 Chicago Cubs  
Stan Musial 7 St. Louis Cardinals 11
Enos Slaughter 7 St. Louis Cardinals  
Bobby Thomson 7 New York Giants  
Carl Furillo 6 Brooklyn Dodgers 14
Mike Goliat 6 Philadelphia Phillies  
Willie Jones 6 Philadelphia Phillies  
Buddy Kerr 6 Boston Braves  
Ralph Kiner 6 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Don Mueller 6 New York Giants  
Jack Phillips 6 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Hank Thompson 6 New York Giants  
Wally Westlake 6 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Al Dark 5 New York Giants 23
Bob Elliott 5 Boston Braves  
Granny Hamner 5 Philadelphia Phillies  



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.

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.