Total Bases : 1946 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)
 

1946 Total Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Ted Williams 343 Boston Red Sox 1
Hank Greenberg 316 Detroit Tigers 2
Mickey Vernon 298 Washington Senators 3
Charlie Keller 287 New York Yankees 4
Stan Spence 287 Washington Senators  
Johnny Pesky 265 Boston Red Sox 6
Bobby Doerr 264 Boston Red Sox 7
Joe DiMaggio 257 New York Yankees 8
Rudy York 253 Boston Red Sox 9
Buddy Lewis 245 Washington Senators 10
Sam Chapman 234 Philadelphia Athletics 11
Hank Edwards 233 Cleveland Indians 12
Tommy Henrich 232 New York Yankees 13
Dom DiMaggio 228 Boston Red Sox 14
Jeff Heath 228 Washington Senators  
St. Louis Browns  
George Kell 225 Philadelphia Athletics 16
Detroit Tigers  
Luke Appling 220 Chicago White Sox 17
Lou Boudreau 211 Cleveland Indians 18
Wally Judnich 210 St. Louis Browns 19
Johnny Berardino 208 St. Louis Browns 20
Vern Stephens 207 St. Louis Browns 21
Eddie Lake 199 Detroit Tigers 22
Pat Seerey 190 Cleveland Indians 23
Jerry Priddy 186 Washington Senators 24
Joe Grace 179 St. Louis Browns 25
Washington Senators  



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.

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?