Top 25 Bases on Balls in 1964 in the American League

Bases on Balls : 1964 American League Top 25

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"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)

1964 Bases on Balls Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Bases on Balls Team Rank

Norm Siebern 106 Baltimore Orioles 1

Mickey Mantle 99 New York Yankees 2

Harmon Killebrew 93 Minnesota Twins 3

Bob Allison 92 Minnesota Twins 4

Wayne Causey 88 Kansas City Athletics 5

Jim Gentile 84 Kansas City Athletics 6

Rocky Colavito 83 Kansas City Athletics 7

Don Lock 79 Washington Senators 8

Dick McAuliffe 77 Detroit Tigers 9

Dick Howser 76 Cleveland Indians 10

Boog Powell 76 Baltimore Orioles

Al Kaline 75 Detroit Tigers 12

Carl Yastrzemski 75 Boston Red Sox

Ron Hansen 73 Chicago White Sox 14

Tom Tresh 73 New York Yankees

Eddie Bressoud 72 Boston Red Sox 16

Jim Fregosi 72 Los Angeles Angels

Norm Cash 70 Detroit Tigers 18

Floyd Robinson 70 Chicago White Sox

Ed Charles 64 Kansas City Athletics 20

Roger Maris 62 New York Yankees 21

Chuck Hinton 57 Washington Senators 22

Leon Wagner 56 Cleveland Indians 23

Pete Ward 56 Chicago White Sox

Jim King 55 Washington Senators 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.

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).

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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