Home Runs : 1893 National League Top 25

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"The baseball season - six months & 2,106 games - is flat out long, and it's a rare one of those games that doesn't ramble or sputter or digress or somehow violate the rules of dramatic narrative. Baseball takes its own sweet time reaching its conclusions." - Dwight Allen in Reds, Yanks and O's (1989)
 

1893 Home Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Ed Delahanty 19 Philadelphia Phillies 1
Jack Clements 17 Philadelphia Phillies 2
Bobby Lowe 14 Boston Beaneaters 3
Mike Tiernan 14 New York Giants  
Roger Connor 11 New York Giants 5
George Davis 11 New York Giants  
Sam Thompson 11 Philadelphia Phillies  
Billy Nash 10 Boston Beaneaters 8
Eddie Burke 9 New York Giants 9
Joe Kelley 9 Baltimore Orioles  
Bob Allen 8 Philadelphia Phillies 11
Tom Daly 8 Brooklyn Bridegrooms  
Bill Lange 8 Chicago Colts  
Oyster Burns 7 Brooklyn Bridegrooms 14
Dave Foutz 7 Brooklyn Bridegrooms  
Elmer Smith 7 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Tommy Tucker 7 Boston Beaneaters  
Jesse Burkett 6 Cleveland Spiders 18
Hugh Duffy 6 Boston Beaneaters  
Buck Ewing 6 Cleveland Spiders  
Mike Griffin 6 Brooklyn Bridegrooms  
Herman Long 6 Boston Beaneaters  
Jake Beckley 5 Pittsburgh Pirates 23
Tom Brown 5 Louisville Colonels  
Jim Canavan 5 Cincinnati Reds  



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?

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).

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.