Games : 1978 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)
 

1978 Games Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Kent Tekulve 91 Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Mark Littell 72 St. Louis Cardinals 2
Donnie Moore 71 Chicago Cubs 3
Doug Bair 70 Cincinnati Reds 4
Randy Moffitt 70 San Francisco Giants  
Dale Murray 68 Cincinnati Reds 6
New York Mets  
Rollie Fingers 67 San Diego Padres 7
Gary Lavelle 67 San Francisco Giants  
Ron Reed 66 Philadelphia Phillies 9
Gene Garber 65 Philadelphia Phillies 10
Atlanta Braves  
Bruce Sutter 64 Chicago Cubs 11
Manny Sarmiento 63 Cincinnati Reds 12
Pedro Borbon 62 Cincinnati Reds 13
Joe Sambito 62 Houston Astros  
Buddy Schultz 62 St. Louis Cardinals  
Grant Jackson 60 Pittsburgh Pirates 16
Darold Knowles 60 Montreal Expos  
Warren Brusstar 58 Philadelphia Phillies 18
Mike Garman 57 Los Angeles Dodgers 19
Montreal Expos  
Skip Lockwood 57 New York Mets  
Dave Tomlin 57 Cincinnati Reds  
Mark Lee 56 San Diego Padres 22
Charlie Hough 55 Los Angeles Dodgers 23
Tug McGraw 55 Philadelphia Phillies  
Willie Hernandez 54 Chicago Cubs 25



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.

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

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).