Runs Batted In : 1957 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)
 

1957 Runs Batted In Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Hank Aaron 132 Milwaukee Braves 1
Del Ennis 105 St. Louis Cardinals 2
Ernie Banks 102 Chicago Cubs 3
Stan Musial 102 St. Louis Cardinals  
Gil Hodges 98 Brooklyn Dodgers 5
Willie Mays 97 New York Giants 6
Eddie Mathews 94 Milwaukee Braves 7
George Crowe 92 Cincinnati Redlegs 8
Duke Snider 92 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Don Hoak 89 Cincinnati Redlegs 10
Frank Thomas 89 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Walt Moryn 88 Chicago Cubs 12
Ed Bouchee 76 Philadelphia Phillies 13
Hank Sauer 76 New York Giants  
Frank Robinson 75 Cincinnati Redlegs 15
Wally Post 74 Cincinnati Redlegs 16
Wally Moon 73 St. Louis Cardinals 17
Rip Repulski 68 Philadelphia Phillies 18
Dale Long 67 Pittsburgh Pirates 19
Chicago Cubs  
Stan Lopata 67 Philadelphia Phillies  
Carl Furillo 66 Brooklyn Dodgers 21
Wes Covington 65 Milwaukee Braves 22
Red Schoendienst 65 New York Giants  
Milwaukee Braves  
Al Dark 64 St. Louis Cardinals 24
Ken Boyer 62 St. Louis Cardinals 25



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).

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