1981 Bases on Balls Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Bases on Balls	Team	Rank
Dwight Evans	85	Boston Red Sox	1
Dwayne Murphy	73	Oakland Athletics	2
Steve Kemp	70	Detroit Tigers	3
Rickey Henderson	64	Oakland Athletics	4
Willie Aikens	62	Kansas City Royals	5
Ken Singleton	61	Baltimore Orioles	6
Mike Hargrove	60	Cleveland Indians	7
Greg Luzinski	58	Chicago White Sox	8
Toby Harrah	57	Cleveland Indians	9
Willie Randolph	57	New York Yankees
Otto Velez	55	Toronto Blue Jays	11
Tony Bernazard	54	Chicago White Sox	12
Al Bumbry	51	Baltimore Orioles	13
Jim Sundberg	50	Texas Rangers	14
Gorman Thomas	50	Milwaukee Brewers
Alan Trammell	49	Detroit Tigers	16
Carl Yastrzemski	49	Boston Red Sox
Bruce Bochte	47	Seattle Mariners	18
Graig Nettles	47	New York Yankees
Brian Downing	46	California Angels	20
Reggie Jackson	46	New York Yankees
Rod Carew	45	California Angels	22
John Mayberry	44	Toronto Blue Jays	23
Dave Winfield	43	New York Yankees	24
Don Baylor	42	California Angels	25
Name	Bases on Balls	Team	Rank

	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).