Strikeouts : 1876 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)
 

1876 Strikeouts Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Jim Devlin 122 Louisville Grays 1
George Bradley 103 St. Louis Brown Stockings 2
Tommy Bond 88 Hartford Dark Blues 3
Al Spalding 39 Chicago White Stockings 4
Bobby Mathews 37 New York Mutuals 5
Joe Borden 34 Boston Red Caps 6
Cherokee Fisher 29 Cincinnati Red Stockings 7
Candy Cummings 26 Hartford Dark Blues 8
Jack Manning 24 Boston Red Caps 9
Dory Dean 22 Cincinnati Red Stockings 10
Foghorn Bradley 16 Boston Red Caps 11
Lon Knight 12 Philadelphia Athletics 12
George Zettlein 10 Philadelphia Athletics 13
Cal McVey 9 Chicago White Stockings 14
Dale Williams 9 Cincinnati Red Stockings  
Deacon White 3 Chicago White Stockings 16
Dick McBride 2 Boston Red Caps 17
Jim Clinton 1 Louisville Grays 18
Frank Pearce 1 Louisville Grays  
Johnny Ryan 1 Louisville Grays  
George Wright 1 Boston Red Caps  



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.

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.

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