Wins : 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 Wins Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Al Spalding 47 Chicago White Stockings 1
George Bradley 45 St. Louis Brown Stockings 2
Tommy Bond 31 Hartford Dark Blues 3
Jim Devlin 30 Louisville Grays 4
Bobby Mathews 21 New York Mutuals 5
Jack Manning 18 Boston Red Caps 6
Candy Cummings 16 Hartford Dark Blues 7
Joe Borden 11 Boston Red Caps 8
Lon Knight 10 Philadelphia Athletics 9
Foghorn Bradley 9 Boston Red Caps 10
Cal McVey 5 Chicago White Stockings 11
Dory Dean 4 Cincinnati Red Stockings 12
Cherokee Fisher 4 Cincinnati Red Stockings  
George Zettlein 4 Philadelphia Athletics  
Tricky Nichols 1 Boston Red Caps 15
Dale Williams 1 Cincinnati Red Stockings  



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.

Did you know that more than forty players have worn the number twenty-five for the Boston Red Sox — including Jack Clark, Denny Galehouse, Dizzy Trout and Tony Conigliaro.

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).