Top 25 Total Bases in 1943 in the National League

Total Bases : 1943 National 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)

1943 Total Bases Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Total Bases Team Rank

Stan Musial 347 St. Louis Cardinals 1

Bill Nicholson 323 Chicago Cubs 2

Bob Elliott 258 Pittsburgh Pirates 3

Lou Klein 257 St. Louis Cardinals 4

Ron Northey 252 Philadelphia Phillies 5

Arky Vaughan 252 Brooklyn Dodgers

Billy Herman 244 Brooklyn Dodgers 7

Tommy Holmes 238 Boston Braves 8

Vince DiMaggio 234 Pittsburgh Pirates 9

Mickey Witek 230 New York Giants 10

Whitey Kurowski 229 St. Louis Cardinals 11

Phil Cavarretta 223 Chicago Cubs 12

Dixie Walker 222 Brooklyn Dodgers 13

Elbie Fletcher 215 Pittsburgh Pirates 14

Harry Walker 212 St. Louis Cardinals 15

Eric Tipton 209 Cincinnati Reds 16

Walker Cooper 208 St. Louis Cardinals 17

Chuck Workman 202 Boston Braves 18

Augie Galan 201 Brooklyn Dodgers 19

Ray Sanders 198 St. Louis Cardinals 20

Lonny Frey 196 Cincinnati Reds 21

Stan Hack 195 Chicago Cubs 22

Frank McCormick 195 Cincinnati Reds

Peanuts Lowrey 192 Chicago Cubs 24

Jim Russell 191 Pittsburgh Pirates 25

Name Total Bases Team Rank

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

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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