1909 Bases on Balls Leaders Top 25 in the National League
Name	Bases on Balls	Team	Rank
Fred Clarke	80	Pittsburgh Pirates	1
Bobby Byrne	78	St. Louis Cardinals	2
		Pittsburgh Pirates
Johnny Evers	73	Chicago Cubs	3
Jimmy Sheckard	72	Chicago Cubs	4
Al Bridwell	67	New York Giants	5
Steve Evans	66	St. Louis Cardinals	6
Tommy Leach	66	Pittsburgh Pirates
John Titus	66	Philadelphia Phillies
Honus Wagner	66	Pittsburgh Pirates
Jap Barbeau	65	Pittsburgh Pirates	10
		St. Louis Cardinals
Art Devlin	65	New York Giants
Ed Konetchy	65	St. Louis Cardinals
Tim Jordan	59	Brooklyn Superbas	13
Mike Mitchell	57	Cincinnati Reds	14
Harry Steinfeldt	57	Chicago Cubs
Bob Bescher	56	Cincinnati Reds	16
Al Shaw	55	St. Louis Cardinals	17
Rube Ellis	54	St. Louis Cardinals	18
Solly Hofman	53	Chicago Cubs	19
Fred Tenney	52	New York Giants	20
Al Burch	51	Brooklyn Superbas	21
Moose McCormick	49	New York Giants	22
Johnny Bates	48	Boston Doves	23
		Philadelphia Phillies
Hans Lobert	48	Cincinnati Reds
Beals Becker	47	Boston Doves	25
Name	Bases on Balls	Team	Rank

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