Top 25 Total Bases in 1979 in the National League

Total Bases : 1979 National League Top 25

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"The baseball season - six months & 2,106 games - is flat out long, and it's a rare one of those games that doesn't ramble or sputter or digress or somehow violate the rules of dramatic narrative. Baseball takes its own sweet time reaching its conclusions." - Dwight Allen in Reds, Yanks and O's (1989)

1979 Total Bases Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Total Bases Team Rank

Dave Winfield 333 San Diego Padres 1

Dave Parker 327 Pittsburgh Pirates 2

Dave Kingman 326 Chicago Cubs 3

Steve Garvey 322 Los Angeles Dodgers 4

Gary Matthews 317 Atlanta Braves 5

Keith Hernandez 313 St. Louis Cardinals 6

Garry Templeton 308 St. Louis Cardinals 7

Mike Schmidt 305 Philadelphia Phillies 8

Larry Parrish 300 Montreal Expos 9

Andre Dawson 299 Montreal Expos 10

Davey Lopes 270 Los Angeles Dodgers 11

Pete Rose 270 Philadelphia Phillies

Bob Horner 269 Atlanta Braves 13

Lee Mazzilli 268 New York Mets 14

Omar Moreno 265 Pittsburgh Pirates 15

Warren Cromartie 261 Montreal Expos 16

Bill Buckner 258 Chicago Cubs 17

Joel Youngblood 257 New York Mets 18

Dusty Baker 252 Los Angeles Dodgers 19

Jack Clark 251 San Francisco Giants 20

Ray Knight 250 Cincinnati Reds 21

Ellis Valentine 249 Montreal Expos 22

George Foster 247 Cincinnati Reds 23

Gary Carter 245 Montreal Expos 24

Dave Concepcion 245 Cincinnati Reds

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.

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.

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?

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