Games : 1916 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:

"What people don't understand is, one day off for Cal Ripken would not recharge his batteries. One day would not do it. He's not playing 2,130 games in a row. Cal is ONLY playing 162 games a year." - Frank Robinson in The Sporting News (September 11, 1995)
 

1916 Games Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Lee Meadows 51 St. Louis Cardinals 1
Grover Alexander 48 Philadelphia Phillies 2
Red Ames 45 St. Louis Cardinals 3
Al Mamaux 45 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Pete Schneider 44 Cincinnati Reds 5
Al Schulz 44 Cincinnati Reds  
Hippo Vaughn 44 Chicago Cubs  
Wilbur Cooper 42 Pittsburgh Pirates 8
Larry Cheney 41 Brooklyn Robins 9
Jeff Pfeffer 41 Brooklyn Robins  
Dick Rudolph 41 Boston Braves  
Fred Toney 41 Cincinnati Reds  
Tom Hughes 40 Boston Braves 13
Pol Perritt 40 New York Giants  
Jeff Tesreau 40 New York Giants  
Al Demaree 39 Philadelphia Phillies 16
Fred Anderson 38 New York Giants 17
Rube Benton 38 New York Giants  
Elmer Knetzer 38 Boston Braves  
Cincinnati Reds  
Eppa Rixey 38 Philadelphia Phillies  
Erv Kantlehner 37 Pittsburgh Pirates 21
Philadelphia Phillies  
Gene Packard 37 Chicago Cubs  
Claude Hendrix 36 Chicago Cubs 23
Jimmy Lavender 36 Chicago Cubs  
Rube Marquard 36 Brooklyn Robins  



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.

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.

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).