Bases on Balls : 1905 American League Top 25

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"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)
 

1905 Bases on Balls Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Topsy Hartsel 121 Philadelphia Athletics 1
Fielder Jones 73 Chicago White Sox 2
Jesse Burkett 67 Boston Americans 3
Kip Selbach 67 Boston Americans  
George Davis 60 Chicago White Sox 5
Lou Criger 54 Boston Americans 6
Elmer Flick 53 Cleveland Naps 7
Danny Green 53 Chicago White Sox  
Sam Crawford 50 Detroit Tigers 9
Chick Stahl 50 Boston Americans  
Jimmy Williams 50 New York Highlanders  
Matty McIntyre 48 Detroit Tigers 12
Freddy Parent 47 Boston Americans 13
Buck Freeman 46 Boston Americans 14
Ike Rockenfield 46 St. Louis Browns  
Germany Schaefer 45 Detroit Tigers 16
Lee Tannehill 45 Chicago White Sox  
Bobby Wallace 45 St. Louis Browns  
Jiggs Donahue 44 Chicago White Sox 19
George Stone 44 St. Louis Browns  
Harry Davis 43 Philadelphia Athletics 21
Willie Keeler 43 New York Highlanders  
Emil Frisk 42 St. Louis Browns 23
Danny Murphy 42 Philadelphia Athletics  
Socks Seybold 42 Philadelphia Athletics  



The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

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).

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.