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This article lists records for stolen bases within Major League Baseball (MLB). For individual players, leaders in stolen bases for a career, single season, and single game are provided, along with leaders in stolen base percentage for a single season and career. Team records for stolen bases in a single season are also provided.
Lou Brock held the stolen base record from 1977 to 1991 and is one of just three players with more than 900 career stolen bases. Sliding Billy Hamilton held the stolen base record for 80 years. Arlie Latham was the stolen base record holder from 1887 to 1896. Juan Pierre won multiple stolen base titles and finished his career with 614 stolen bases.
Max Carey led the National League in stolen bases ten times, the most times of any player. Maury Wills led the National League in stolen bases in six consecutive seasons. Vince Coleman is the only other player to do so. John Montgomery Ward was the first player to lead the National League in stolen bases for different teams.
Ned Cuthbert, playing for the Philadelphia Keystones in either 1863 or 1865, was the first player to steal a base in a baseball game, although the term stolen base was not used until 1870. [2] For a time in the 19th century, stolen bases were credited when a baserunner reached an extra base on a base hit from another player. [3]
That winter, Henderson played in the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League; his 42 stolen bases broke that league's record as well. [24] Henderson goes to steal second base for the Athletics in 1983. Henderson was an MVP candidate a year later, in a season shortened by a players' strike. He hit .319, fourth in the AL, and led the league in ...
In a game against the San Diego Padres on August 29, 1977, at San Diego Stadium, Brock broke Ty Cobb's career record of 892 stolen bases and became the all-time major league stolen base leader. [29] Cobb's record had been one of the most durable in baseball and, like Babe Ruth's record of 714 career home runs, had been considered unbreakable by ...
The next closest player is Lou Brock, who has 468 fewer stolen bases at 938. According to LIFE, the stolen base record is probably unbreakable, as it is hard to imagine a player today who would "even attempt so many steals." [103] For a player to approach Henderson's milestone, he would have to average 70 stolen bases over 20 seasons just to ...
List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders This page was last edited on 5 May 2021, at 02:53 (UTC). Text is ...