1889 Bases on Balls Leaders Top 25 in the National League
Name	Bases on Balls	Team	Rank
Mike Tiernan	96	New York Giants	1
Roger Connor	93	New York Giants	2
Paul Radford	91	Cleveland Spiders	3
Cap Anson	86	Chicago White Stockings	4
Fred Carroll	85	Pittsburgh Alleghenys	5
George Gore	84	New York Giants	6
George Van Haltren	82	Chicago White Stockings	7
Billy Nash	79	Boston Beaneaters	8
Dummy Hoy	75	Washington Senators	9
Jimmy Ryan	70	Chicago White Stockings	10
Emmett Seery	67	Indianapolis Hoosiers	11
Dan Brouthers	66	Boston Beaneaters	12
Jim Fogarty	65	Philadelphia Phillies	13
King Kelly	65	Boston Beaneaters
Sam Wise	61	Washington Senators	15
Tom Brown	59	Boston Beaneaters	16
Ned Hanlon	58	Pittsburgh Alleghenys	17
Al Myers	58	Washington Senators
		Philadelphia Phillies
Cub Stricker	58	Cleveland Spiders
Art Whitney	56	New York Giants	20
Fred Pfeffer	53	Chicago White Stockings	21
George Wood	53	Philadelphia Phillies
Sid Farrar	52	Philadelphia Phillies	23
Walt Wilmot	51	Washington Senators	24
Marty Sullivan	50	Indianapolis Hoosiers	25
Name	Bases on Balls	Team	Rank

	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. 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. 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.