Bases on Balls : 1911 National 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:

"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)
 

1911 Bases on Balls Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Jimmy Sheckard 147 Chicago Cubs 1
Johnny Bates 103 Cincinnati Reds 2
Bob Bescher 102 Cincinnati Reds 3
Miller Huggins 96 St. Louis Cardinals 4
Otto Knabe 94 Philadelphia Phillies 5
Josh DeVore 81 New York Giants 6
Ed Konetchy 81 St. Louis Cardinals  
Bill Sweeney 77 Boston Rustlers 8
Wildfire Schulte 76 Chicago Cubs 9
Fred Snodgrass 72 New York Giants 10
Larry Doyle 71 New York Giants 11
Dode Paskert 70 Philadelphia Phillies 12
Bobby Byrne 67 Pittsburgh Pirates 13
John Hummel 67 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Honus Wagner 67 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Al Bridwell 66 New York Giants 16
Boston Rustlers  
Rube Ellis 66 St. Louis Cardinals  
Solly Hofman 66 Chicago Cubs  
Hans Lobert 66 Philadelphia Phillies  
Dick Egan 59 Cincinnati Reds 20
Mike Mowrey 59 St. Louis Cardinals  
Fred Clarke 53 Pittsburgh Pirates 22
Bert Tooley 53 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Jake Daubert 51 Brooklyn Dodgers 24
Eddie Grant 51 Cincinnati Reds  



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.

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.

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).