Top 25 Stolen Bases in 1988 in the National League

Stolen Bases : 1988 National League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)

1988 Stolen Bases Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Stolen Bases Team Rank

Vince Coleman 81 St. Louis Cardinals 1

Gerald Young 65 Houston Astros 2

Ozzie Smith 57 St. Louis Cardinals 3

Otis Nixon 46 Montreal Expos 4

Chris Sabo 46 Cincinnati Reds

Brett Butler 43 San Francisco Giants 6

Steve Sax 42 Los Angeles Dodgers 7

Willie McGee 41 St. Louis Cardinals 8

Barry Larkin 40 Cincinnati Reds 9

Eric Davis 35 Cincinnati Reds 10

Tim Raines 33 Montreal Expos 11

Juan Samuel 33 Philadelphia Phillies

Billy Hatcher 32 Houston Astros 13

Kevin Bass 31 Houston Astros 14

Kirk Gibson 31 Los Angeles Dodgers

Shawon Dunston 30 Chicago Cubs 16

Lenny Dykstra 30 New York Mets

Andy Van Slyke 30 Pittsburgh Pirates

Rex Hudler 29 Montreal Expos 19

Gerald Perry 29 Atlanta Braves

Darryl Strawberry 29 New York Mets

Kal Daniels 27 Cincinnati Reds 22

Tony Gwynn 26 San Diego Padres 23

Ryne Sandberg 25 Chicago Cubs 24

Roberto Alomar 24 San Diego Padres 25

Name Stolen Bases Team Rank

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

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).

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.

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