Total Bases : 1908 American League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"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)
 

1908 Total Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Ty Cobb 276 Detroit Tigers 1
Sam Crawford 270 Detroit Tigers 2
Claude Rossman 219 Detroit Tigers 3
Nap Lajoie 218 Cleveland Naps 4
Matty McIntyre 218 Detroit Tigers  
George Stone 217 St. Louis Browns 6
George Stovall 203 Cleveland Naps 7
Germany Schaefer 200 Detroit Tigers 8
Jake Stahl 199 New York Highlanders 9
Boston Red Sox  
Hobe Ferris 196 St. Louis Browns 10
Bob Unglaub 195 Boston Red Sox 11
Washington Senators  
Danny Murphy 193 Philadelphia Athletics 12
Doc Gessler 184 Boston Red Sox 13
Harry Davis 183 Philadelphia Athletics 14
Charlie Hemphill 180 New York Highlanders 15
Harry Lord 178 Boston Red Sox 16
Bill Bradley 174 Cleveland Naps 17
Jimmy Williams 173 St. Louis Browns 18
Bob Ganley 171 Washington Senators 19
Amby McConnell 168 Boston Red Sox 20
Bill Hinchman 164 Cleveland Naps 21
Jerry Freeman 162 Washington Senators 22
Fielder Jones 162 Chicago White Sox  
Bobby Wallace 158 St. Louis Browns 24
Wid Conroy 157 New York Highlanders 25



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.

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