All-Time Batting Leaders (Through 1998 Season)

Players Active during 1998 indicated by an asterisk (*)
See also Active batting leaders 

Hits

  1 Pete Rose          4256
  2 Ty Cobb            4191
  3 Hank Aaron         3771
  4 Stan Musial        3630
  5 Tris Speaker       3514
  6 Carl Yastrzemski   3419
  7 Honus Wagner       3415
 *8 Paul Molitor       3319
  8 Eddie Collins      3312
  9 Willie Mays        3283
 10 Eddie Murray       3255
 11 Nap Lajoie         3242
 13 George Brett       3154
 14 Paul Waner         3152
 15 Robin Yount        3142
 16 Dave Winfield      3110
 17 Rod Carew          3053
 18 Lou Brock          3023
 19 Al Kaline          3007
 20 Roberto Clemente   3000
 21 Cap Anson          2995
 22 Sam Rice           2987
 23 Sam Crawford       2961
 24 Frank Robinson     2943
 25 Willie Keeler      2932

Home Runs

  1 Hank Aaron          755
  2 Babe Ruth           714
  3 Willie Mays         660
  4 Frank Robinson      586
  5 Harmon Killebrew    573
  6 Reggie Jackson      563
  7 Mike Schmidt        548
  8 Mickey Mantle       536
  9 Jimmie Foxx         534
 10 Willie McCovey      521
    Ted Williams        521
 12 Ernie Banks         512
    Eddie Mathews       512
 14 Mel Ott             511
 15 Eddie Murray        504 
 16 Lou Gehrig          493
 17 Stan Musial         475
    Willie Stargell     475
 19 Dave Winfield       465
 20 Mark McGwire        457
 21 Carl Yastrzemski    452
 22 Dave Kingman        442
 23 Andre Dawson        438
 24 Billy Williams      426
 25 Darrell Evans       414

Stolen Bases

* 1 Rickey Henderson   1297
  2 Lou Brock           938
  3 Billy Hamilton      912
  4 Ty Cobb             891
* 5 Tim Raines          803
  6 Vince Coleman       752
  7 Eddie Collins       744
  8 Arlie Latham        739
  9 Max Carey           738
 10 Honus Wagner        722
 11 Joe Morgan          689
 12 Willie Wilson       668
 13 Tom Brown           657
 14 Bert Campaneris     649
 15 George Davis        616
 16 Dummy Hoy           594
 16 Otis Nixon          594
 18 Maury Wills         586
 19 George Van Haltren  583
 20 Ozzie Smith         580
 21 Hugh Duffy          574
 22 Bid McPhee          568
 23 Brett Butler        558
 24 Davey Lopes         557
 25 Cesar Cedeno        550