Runs Batted In : 1906 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)
 

1906 Runs Batted In Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Jim Nealon 83 Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Harry Steinfeldt 83 Chicago Cubs  
Cy Seymour 80 Cincinnati Reds 3
New York Giants  
Tim Jordan 78 Brooklyn Superbas 4
Frank Chance 71 Chicago Cubs 5
Honus Wagner 71 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Sherry Magee 67 Philadelphia Phillies 7
Art Devlin 65 New York Giants 8
Joe Tinker 64 Chicago Cubs 9
Claude Ritchey 62 Pittsburgh Pirates 10
Harry Lumley 61 Brooklyn Superbas 11
Kitty Bransfield 60 Philadelphia Phillies 12
Wildfire Schulte 60 Chicago Cubs  
John Titus 57 Philadelphia Phillies 14
Mickey Doolan 55 Philadelphia Phillies 15
Johnny Bates 54 Boston Beaneaters 16
Del Howard 54 Boston Beaneaters  
Admiral Schlei 54 Cincinnati Reds  
Joe Kelley 53 Cincinnati Reds 19
Sam Mertes 52 New York Giants 20
St. Louis Cardinals  
Johnny Evers 51 Chicago Cubs 21
Spike Shannon 50 St. Louis Cardinals 22
New York Giants  
Bill Dahlen 49 New York Giants 23
Sammy Strang 49 New York Giants  
Homer Smoot 48 St. Louis Cardinals 25
Cincinnati Reds  



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.

The most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?

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.