Runs Batted In : 1890 American Association Top 25

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"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)
 

1890 Runs Batted In Leaders

Top 25 in the American Association

Spud Johnson 113 Columbus Colts 1
Jimmy Wolf 98 Louisville Colonels 2
Cupid Childs 89 Syracuse Stars 3
Jimmy Knowles 84 Rochester Rochesters 4
Tim Shinnick 82 Louisville Colonels 5
Jack O'Brien 80 Philadelphia Athletics 6
Charlie Hamburg 77 Louisville Colonels 7
Charlie Reilly 77 Columbus Colts  
Count Campau 75 St. Louis Browns 9
Denny Lyons 73 Philadelphia Athletics 10
Parson Nicholson 72 Toledo Maumees 11
Perry Werden 72 Toledo Maumees  
Tommy McCarthy 69 St. Louis Browns 13
John Sneed 69 Toledo Maumees  
Columbus Colts  
Billy O'Brien 67 Brooklyn Gladiators 15
Farmer Weaver 67 Louisville Colonels  
Jack O'Connor 66 Columbus Colts 17
Bones Ely 64 Syracuse Stars 18
Ed Swartwood 64 Toledo Maumees  
Jack Crooks 62 Columbus Colts 20
Hank Simon 61 Brooklyn Gladiators 21
Syracuse Stars  
Ed Cartwright 60 St. Louis Browns 22
Blondie Purcell 59 Philadelphia Athletics 23
Harry Lyons 58 Rochester Rochesters 24
Chief Roseman 58 St. Louis Browns  
Louisville Colonels  



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).

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