Complete Games : 1876 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)
 

1876 Complete Games Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Jim Devlin 66 Louisville Grays 1
George Bradley 63 St. Louis Brown Stockings 2
Bobby Mathews 55 New York Mutuals 3
Al Spalding 53 Chicago White Stockings 4
Tommy Bond 45 Hartford Dark Blues 5
Lon Knight 27 Philadelphia Athletics 6
Dory Dean 26 Cincinnati Red Stockings 7
Candy Cummings 24 Hartford Dark Blues 8
George Zettlein 23 Philadelphia Athletics 9
Cherokee Fisher 22 Cincinnati Red Stockings 10
Joe Borden 16 Boston Red Caps 11
Foghorn Bradley 16 Boston Red Caps  
Jack Manning 13 Boston Red Caps 13
Dale Williams 9 Cincinnati Red Stockings 14
Cal McVey 5 Chicago White Stockings 15
Dick McBride 3 Boston Red Caps 16
Levi Meyerle 2 Philadelphia Athletics 17
Jim Clinton 1 Louisville Grays 18
Flip Lafferty 1 Philadelphia Athletics  
Terry Larkin 1 New York Mutuals  
Tricky Nichols 1 Boston Red Caps  



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.

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

The most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?