Top 25 Home Runs in 1951 in the National League

Home Runs : 1951 National League 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)

1951 Home Runs Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Home Runs Team Rank

Ralph Kiner 42 Pittsburgh Pirates 1

Gil Hodges 40 Brooklyn Dodgers 2

Roy Campanella 33 Brooklyn Dodgers 3

Stan Musial 32 St. Louis Cardinals 4

Bobby Thomson 32 New York Giants

Andy Pafko 30 Chicago Cubs 6

Brooklyn Dodgers

Hank Sauer 30 Chicago Cubs

Sid Gordon 29 Boston Braves 8

Duke Snider 29 Brooklyn Dodgers

Monte Irvin 24 New York Giants 10

Earl Torgeson 24 Boston Braves

Willie Jones 22 Philadelphia Phillies 12

Wally Westlake 22 Pittsburgh Pirates

St. Louis Cardinals

Willie Mays 20 New York Giants 14

Wes Westrum 20 New York Giants

Jackie Robinson 19 Brooklyn Dodgers 16

Walker Cooper 18 Boston Braves 17

Sam Jethroe 18 Boston Braves

Gus Bell 16 Pittsburgh Pirates 19

Carl Furillo 16 Brooklyn Dodgers

Randy Jackson 16 Chicago Cubs

Don Mueller 16 New York Giants

Connie Ryan 16 Cincinnati Reds

Bob Elliott 15 Boston Braves 24

Del Ennis 15 Philadelphia Phillies

Name Home Runs Team Rank

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

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.

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