Top 25 Total Bases in 1968 in the American League

Total Bases : 1968 American 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)

1968 Total Bases Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Total Bases Team Rank

Frank Howard 330 Washington Senators 1

Willie Horton 278 Detroit Tigers 2

Ken Harrelson 277 Boston Red Sox 3

Carl Yastrzemski 267 Boston Red Sox 4

Jim Northrup 259 Detroit Tigers 5

Brooks Robinson 253 Baltimore Orioles 6

Reggie Jackson 250 Oakland Athletics 7

Bill Freehan 245 Detroit Tigers 8

Reggie Smith 240 Boston Red Sox 9

Roy White 239 New York Yankees 10

Dick McAuliffe 234 Detroit Tigers 11

Bert Campaneris 232 Oakland Athletics 12

Cesar Tovar 228 Minnesota Twins 13

Boog Powell 226 Baltimore Orioles 14

Rick Reichardt 225 California Angels 15

Jim Fregosi 224 California Angels 16

Tony Oliva 224 Minnesota Twins

Bob Allison 214 Minnesota Twins 18

Sal Bando 214 Oakland Athletics

Ken McMullen 213 Washington Senators 20

Mickey Stanley 212 Detroit Tigers 21

Luis Aparicio 208 Chicago White Sox 22

Jose Cardenal 206 Cleveland Indians 23

Norm Cash 200 Detroit Tigers 24

Danny Cater 198 Oakland Athletics 25

Name Total Bases Team Rank

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).

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?

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.

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