Home Runs : 1884 Union Association Top 25

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"I don't think I stayed for a complete game that first year (in Arizona). But something happened. During the second year, I started watching more intently, listening to the broadcasters talk about strategy. I started getting it. Suddenly, a 162-game season didn't seem ridiculously long anymore." - Richard Ruelas in The Arizona Republic (11-07-2001)
 

1884 Home Runs Leaders

Top 25 in the Union Association

Fred Dunlap 13 St. Louis Maroons 1
Ed Crane 12 Boston Unions 2
Charlie Levis 6 Baltimore Monumentals 3
Washington Nationals  
Henry Boyle 4 St. Louis Maroons 4
Dick Burns 4 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds  
Joe Flynn 4 Philadelphia Keystones  
Boston Unions  
Jack Gleason 4 St. Louis Maroons  
Emil Gross 4 Chicago Browns  
Bill Hawes 4 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds  
Tom O'Brien 4 Boston Unions  
Dave Rowe 4 St. Louis Maroons  
Charlie Bastian 3 Wilmington Quicksteps 12
Kansas City Unions  
Jack Clements 3 Philadelphia Keystones  
Frank McLaughlin 3 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds  
Chicago Browns  
Kansas City Unions  
Dick Phelan 3 Baltimore Monumentals  
Lou Say 3 Baltimore Monumentals  
Kansas City Unions  
Billy Taylor 3 St. Louis Maroons  
Jack Glasscock 2 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds 18
Bill Harbridge 2 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds  
Jack Jones 2 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds  
Mox McQuery 2 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds  
Yank Robinson 2 Baltimore Monumentals  
Jumbo Schoeneck 2 Chicago Browns  
Pittsburgh Stogies  
Baltimore Monumentals  
Emmett Seery 2 Baltimore Monumentals  
Kansas City Unions  
Orator Shafer 2 St. Louis Maroons  



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.

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.