Home Runs : 1877 National League Top 25

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"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)
 

1877 Home Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Lip Pike 4 Cincinnati Red Stockings 1
Orator Shafer 3 Louisville Grays 2
Charley Jones 2 Cincinnati Red Stockings 3
Chicago White Stockings  
Pop Snyder 2 Louisville Grays  
Deacon White 2 Boston Red Caps  
Joe Battin 1 St. Louis Brown Stockings 6
Lew Brown 1 Boston Red Caps  
Tom Carey 1 Hartford Dark Blues  
Bill Crowley 1 Louisville Grays  
Jim Devlin 1 Louisville Grays  
Joe Gerhardt 1 Louisville Grays  
Bill Hague 1 Louisville Grays  
Terry Larkin 1 Hartford Dark Blues  
Tim Murnane 1 Boston Red Caps  
Joe Start 1 Hartford Dark Blues  
Tom York 1 Hartford Dark Blues  



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).

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.