Runs Batted In : 1947 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)
 

1947 Runs Batted In Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Johnny Mize 138 New York Giants 1
Ralph Kiner 127 Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Walker Cooper 122 New York Giants 3
Bob Elliott 113 Boston Braves 4
Willard Marshall 107 New York Giants 5
Whitey Kurowski 104 St. Louis Cardinals 6
Stan Musial 95 St. Louis Cardinals 7
Dixie Walker 94 Brooklyn Dodgers 8
Carl Furillo 88 Brooklyn Dodgers 9
Eddie Miller 87 Cincinnati Reds 10
Enos Slaughter 86 St. Louis Cardinals 11
Bobby Thomson 85 New York Giants 12
Del Ennis 81 Philadelphia Phillies 13
Bruce Edwards 80 Brooklyn Dodgers 14
Babe Young 79 New York Giants 15
Cincinnati Reds  
Earl Torgeson 78 Boston Braves 16
Grady Hatton 77 Cincinnati Reds 17
Bill Nicholson 75 Chicago Cubs 18
Hank Greenberg 74 Pittsburgh Pirates 19
Marty Marion 74 St. Louis Cardinals  
Pee Wee Reese 73 Brooklyn Dodgers 21
Connie Ryan 69 Boston Braves 22
Wally Westlake 69 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Frankie Gustine 67 Pittsburgh Pirates 24
Bert Haas 67 Cincinnati Reds  



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 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?

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).