Bases on Balls : 1912 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:

"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)
 

1912 Bases on Balls Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Jimmy Sheckard 122 Chicago Cubs 1
Dode Paskert 91 Philadelphia Phillies 2
Miller Huggins 87 St. Louis Cardinals 3
Bob Bescher 83 Cincinnati Reds 4
John Titus 82 Philadelphia Phillies 5
Boston Braves  
Johnny Evers 74 Chicago Cubs 6
Ed McDonald 70 Boston Braves 7
Fred Snodgrass 70 New York Giants  
Herbie Moran 69 Brooklyn Dodgers 9
Bill Sweeney 68 Boston Braves 10
Tommy Leach 67 Pittsburgh Pirates 11
Chicago Cubs  
Ed Konetchy 62 St. Louis Cardinals 12
Max Carey 61 Pittsburgh Pirates 13
Honus Wagner 59 Pittsburgh Pirates 14
Buck Herzog 57 New York Giants 15
Larry Doyle 56 New York Giants 16
Dick Egan 56 Cincinnati Reds  
Otto Knabe 55 Philadelphia Phillies 18
Sherry Magee 55 Philadelphia Phillies  
Beals Becker 54 New York Giants 20
Bobby Byrne 54 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Red Smith 54 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Wildfire Schulte 53 Chicago Cubs 23
Josh DeVore 51 New York Giants 24
Art Devlin 51 Boston Braves  



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

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).