Runs Batted In : 1898 National League 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)
 

1898 Runs Batted In Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Nap Lajoie 127 Philadelphia Phillies 1
Jimmy Collins 111 Boston Beaneaters 2
Joe Kelley 110 Baltimore Orioles 3
Hugh Duffy 108 Boston Beaneaters 4
Dan McGann 106 Baltimore Orioles 5
Honus Wagner 105 Louisville Colonels 6
Herman Long 99 Boston Beaneaters 7
Bobby Wallace 99 Cleveland Spiders  
Bobby Lowe 94 Boston Beaneaters 9
Ed McKean 94 Cleveland Spiders  
Ed Delahanty 92 Philadelphia Phillies 11
Bill Joyce 91 New York Giants 12
Dusty Miller 90 Cincinnati Reds 13
Fred Hartman 88 New York Giants 14
Tommy Corcoran 87 Cincinnati Reds 15
Hughie Jennings 87 Baltimore Orioles  
George Davis 86 New York Giants 17
Gene DeMontreville 86 Baltimore Orioles  
John Anderson 81 Brooklyn Bridegrooms 19
Washington Senators  
Elmer Flick 81 Philadelphia Phillies  
Lave Cross 79 St. Louis Browns 21
Bill Dahlen 79 Chicago Orphans  
Jimmy Ryan 79 Chicago Orphans  
Jack McCarthy 78 Pittsburgh Pirates 24
Barry McCormick 78 Chicago Orphans  



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.

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.

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.