Top 25 Bases on Balls in 1929 in the National League

Bases on Balls : 1929 National League Top 25

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"The baseball season - six months & 2,106 games - is flat out long, and it's a rare one of those games that doesn't ramble or sputter or digress or somehow violate the rules of dramatic narrative. Baseball takes its own sweet time reaching its conclusions." - Dwight Allen in Reds, Yanks and O's (1989)

1929 Bases on Balls Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Bases on Balls Team Rank

Mel Ott 113 New York Giants 1

George Grantham 93 Pittsburgh Pirates 2

Paul Waner 89 Pittsburgh Pirates 3

Rogers Hornsby 87 Chicago Cubs 4

Curt Walker 85 Cincinnati Reds 5

Don Hurst 80 Philadelphia Phillies 6

Taylor Douthit 79 St. Louis Cardinals 7

Hack Wilson 78 Chicago Cubs 8

Lefty O'Doul 76 Philadelphia Phillies 9

Earl Sheely 75 Pittsburgh Pirates 10

Fresco Thompson 75 Philadelphia Phillies

Jim Bottomley 70 St. Louis Cardinals 12

George Harper 69 Boston Braves 13

Woody English 68 Chicago Cubs 14

Rube Bressler 67 Brooklyn Robins 15

Riggs Stephenson 67 Chicago Cubs

Kiki Cuyler 66 Chicago Cubs 17

Travis Jackson 64 New York Giants 18

Pinky Whitney 61 Philadelphia Phillies 19

Babe Herman 55 Brooklyn Robins 20

Chuck Klein 54 Philadelphia Phillies 21

Frankie Frisch 53 St. Louis Cardinals 22

Walt Lerian 53 Philadelphia Phillies

Charlie Gelbert 51 St. Louis Cardinals 24

Les Bell 50 Boston Braves 25

Name Bases on Balls Team Rank

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.

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.

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