Bases on Balls : 1915 American League Top 25

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"What people don't understand is, one day off for Cal Ripken would not recharge his batteries. One day would not do it. He's not playing 2,130 games in a row. Cal is ONLY playing 162 games a year." - Frank Robinson in The Sporting News (September 11, 1995)
 

1915 Bases on Balls Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Eddie Collins 119 Chicago White Sox 1
Donie Bush 118 Detroit Tigers 2
Ty Cobb 118 Detroit Tigers  
Burt Shotton 118 St. Louis Browns  
Harry Hooper 89 Boston Red Sox 5
Tris Speaker 81 Boston Red Sox 6
Ossie Vitt 80 Detroit Tigers 7
Ray Chapman 70 Cleveland Indians 8
Eddie Murphy 68 Philadelphia Athletics 9
Chicago White Sox  
Bobby Veach 68 Detroit Tigers  
Sam Crawford 66 Detroit Tigers 11
Wally Pipp 66 New York Yankees  
Wally Schang 66 Philadelphia Athletics  
Jimmy Austin 64 St. Louis Browns 14
Jack Fournier 64 Chicago White Sox  
Doc Cook 62 New York Yankees 16
Hugh High 62 New York Yankees  
Ray Schalk 62 Chicago White Sox  
Jack Graney 59 Cleveland Indians 19
Danny Moeller 59 Washington Senators  
Roy Hartzell 57 New York Yankees 21
Jimmy Walsh 57 Philadelphia Athletics  
Amos Strunk 56 Philadelphia Athletics 23
Clyde Milan 53 Washington Senators 24
Ralph Young 53 Detroit Tigers  



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.

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).

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.