Total Bases : 1876 National 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:

"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)
 

1876 Total Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Ross Barnes 190 Chicago White Stockings 1
George Hall 146 Philadelphia Athletics 2
Cap Anson 139 Chicago White Stockings 3
Paul Hines 134 Chicago White Stockings 4
Lip Pike 133 St. Louis Brown Stockings 5
George Wright 133 Boston Red Caps  
John Peters 132 Chicago White Stockings 7
Jim O'Rourke 131 Boston Red Caps 8
Dick Higham 127 Hartford Dark Blues 9
Deacon White 127 Chicago White Stockings  
Cal McVey 125 Chicago White Stockings 11
Charley Jones 116 Cincinnati Red Stockings 12
Levi Meyerle 115 Philadelphia Athletics 13
Jack Remsen 114 Hartford Dark Blues 14
Jim Devlin 110 Louisville Grays 15
Al Spalding 109 Chicago White Stockings 16
Joe Battin 104 St. Louis Brown Stockings 17
Tim Murnane 103 Boston Red Caps 18
Bob Ferguson 100 Hartford Dark Blues 19
Wes Fisler 100 Philadelphia Athletics  
John Clapp 99 St. Louis Brown Stockings 21
Andy Leonard 99 Boston Red Caps  
Ezra Sutton 99 Philadelphia Athletics  
Joe Gerhardt 98 Louisville Grays 24
John Glenn 97 Chicago White Stockings 25



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.

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.