1948 Bases on Balls Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Bases on Balls	Team	Rank
Ted Williams	126	Boston Red Sox	1
Eddie Joost	119	Philadelphia Athletics	2
Ferris Fain	113	Philadelphia Athletics	3
Dom DiMaggio	101	Boston Red Sox	4
Johnny Pesky	99	Boston Red Sox	5
Lou Boudreau	98	Cleveland Indians	6
Luke Appling	94	Chicago White Sox	7
Ken Keltner	89	Cleveland Indians	8
Jerry Priddy	86	St. Louis Browns	9
Snuffy Stirnweiss	86	New York Yankees
Bobby Doerr	83	Boston Red Sox	11
Stan Spence	82	Boston Red Sox	12
Eddie Yost	82	Washington Senators
Elmer Valo	81	Philadelphia Athletics	14
Joe Gordon	77	Cleveland Indians	15
Pat Mullin	77	Detroit Tigers
Vern Stephens	77	Boston Red Sox
Tommy Henrich	76	New York Yankees	18
Billy Goodman	74	Boston Red Sox	19
Tony Lupien	74	Chicago White Sox
Floyd Baker	73	Chicago White Sox	21
Dick Wakefield	70	Detroit Tigers	22
Cass Michaels	69	Chicago White Sox	23
Johnny Lipon	68	Detroit Tigers	24
Barney McCosky	68	Philadelphia Athletics
Name	Bases on Balls	Team	Rank

	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. 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.