Hits : 1884 Union Association Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)
 

1884 Hits Leaders

Top 25 in the Union Association

Fred Dunlap 185 St. Louis Maroons 1
Orator Shafer 168 St. Louis Maroons 2
Harry Moore 155 Washington Nationals 3
Emmett Seery 146 Baltimore Monumentals 4
Kansas City Unions  
Dave Rowe 142 St. Louis Maroons 5
Jumbo Schoeneck 131 Chicago Browns 6
Pittsburgh Stogies  
Baltimore Monumentals  
Jack Gleason 128 St. Louis Maroons 7
Ed Crane 122 Boston Unions 8
Jerry McCormick 118 Philadelphia Keystones 9
Washington Nationals  
Tom O'Brien 118 Boston Unions  
Joe Quinn 116 St. Louis Maroons 11
Yank Robinson 111 Baltimore Monumentals 12
Phil Baker 107 Washington Nationals 13
Dick Burns 107 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds  
Walter Hackett 101 Boston Unions 15
John Irwin 101 Boston Unions  
Buster Hoover 100 Philadelphia Keystones 17
Tom Evers 99 Washington Nationals 18
Dick Phelan 99 Baltimore Monumentals  
Joe Ellick 97 Chicago Browns 20
Pittsburgh Stogies  
Kansas City Unions  
Baltimore Monumentals  
Bill Hawes 97 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds  
Bill Harbridge 95 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds 22
Lou Say 95 Baltimore Monumentals  
Kansas City Unions  
Lou Sylvester 89 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds 24
Eddie Fusselback 86 Baltimore Monumentals 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.

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