Bases on Balls : 1941 American League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)
 

1941 Bases on Balls Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Ted Williams 147 Boston Red Sox 1
Roy Cullenbine 121 St. Louis Browns 2
Harlond Clift 113 St. Louis Browns 3
Charlie Keller 102 New York Yankees 4
Charlie Gehringer 95 Detroit Tigers 5
Bob Johnson 95 Philadelphia Athletics  
Benny McCoy 95 Philadelphia Athletics  
Jimmie Foxx 93 Boston Red Sox 8
Rudy York 92 Detroit Tigers 9
Dom DiMaggio 90 Boston Red Sox 10
Lou Boudreau 85 Cleveland Indians 11
Luke Appling 82 Chicago White Sox 12
Joe Cronin 82 Boston Red Sox  
Buddy Lewis 82 Washington Senators  
Tommy Henrich 81 New York Yankees 15
Wally Judnich 80 St. Louis Browns 16
Joe DiMaggio 76 New York Yankees 17
George McQuinn 74 St. Louis Browns 18
Joe Gordon 72 New York Yankees 19
Joe Kuhel 70 Chicago White Sox 20
Bruce Campbell 68 Detroit Tigers 21
Rick Ferrell 67 Washington Senators 22
St. Louis Browns  
Pinky Higgins 67 Detroit Tigers  
Frankie Hayes 62 Philadelphia Athletics 24
Wally Moses 62 Philadelphia Athletics  



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.

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).