On Base Percentage : 1877 National League Top 25

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"The guys who made up this schedule must have been in a room with a bottle of Wild Turkey and 40 straws." - Dave Bergman
 

1877 On Base Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Jim O'Rourke .407 (.40702) Boston Red Caps 1
Deacon White .405 (.40511) Boston Red Caps 2
Cal McVey .387 (.38686) Chicago White Stockings 3
John Cassidy .386 (.38583) Hartford Dark Blues 4
Cap Anson .360 (.35985) Chicago White Stockings 5
Charley Jones .353 (.35294) Cincinnati Red Stockings 6
Chicago White Stockings  
George Hall .352 (.35231) Louisville Grays 7
Joe Start .347 (.34657) Hartford Dark Blues 8
John Clapp .338 (.33840) St. Louis Brown Stockings 9
Mike Dorgan .331 (.33091) St. Louis Brown Stockings 10
Jack Manning .331 (.33074) Cincinnati Red Stockings 11
Lip Pike .321 (.32103) Cincinnati Red Stockings 12
John Peters .320 (.31955) Chicago White Stockings 13
John Morrill .319 (.31855) Boston Red Caps 14
Joe Gerhardt .318 (.31765) Louisville Grays 15
Orator Shafer .309 (.30855) Louisville Grays 16
Juice Latham .304 (.30389) Louisville Grays 17
Ezra Sutton .304 (.30350) Boston Red Caps 18
Andy Leonard .300 (.29964) Boston Red Caps 19
George Wright .298 (.29766) Boston Red Caps 20
Davy Force .297 (.29661) St. Louis Brown Stockings 21
Bob Addy .295 (.29482) Cincinnati Red Stockings 22
Bill Crowley .293 (.29339) Louisville Grays 23
Tom York .292 (.29167) Hartford Dark Blues 24
Jim Devlin .287 (.28727) Louisville Grays 25



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.

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).