Unveiling Baseball’s Greatest Heists: The Untold Stories Behind Stolen Base Records
Since 1901, the 1911 New York Giants posted the highest total with 347 stolen bases. The 1976 Oakland A’s had the second-most base stealers at 341.

Collectively, no season had more stolen bases than 1890, when 25 different teams combined for 6,854 in 1,608 games, an average of nearly 4.3 per game.
But the second-highest season, when 16 teams combined for 6,345 steals over 1,058 games in 1887, had a much-higher per-game average at 6.0.
Since 1901, the 1914 season had the most league-wide stolen bases (4,573).



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