1981 Bases on Balls Leaders Top 25 in the National League
Name	Bases on Balls	Team	Rank
Mike Schmidt	73	Philadelphia Phillies	1
Joe Morgan	66	San Francisco Giants	2
Keith Hernandez	61	St. Louis Cardinals	3
Gary Matthews	59	Philadelphia Phillies	4
Jason Thompson	59	Pittsburgh Pirates
Dave Kingman	55	New York Mets	6
Darrell Evans	54	San Francisco Giants	7
Gene Richards	53	San Diego Padres	8
George Foster	51	Cincinnati Reds	9
Rodney Scott	50	Montreal Expos	10
Ivan DeJesus	46	Chicago Cubs	11
Lee Mazzilli	46	New York Mets
Pete Rose	46	Philadelphia Phillies
Jack Clark	45	San Francisco Giants	14
Tim Raines	45	Montreal Expos
Chris Chambliss	44	Atlanta Braves	16
Dale Murphy	44	Atlanta Braves
Ruppert Jones	43	San Diego Padres	18
Steve Henderson	42	Chicago Cubs	19
Ron Oester	42	Cincinnati Reds
Dave Collins	41	Cincinnati Reds	21
George Hendrick	41	St. Louis Cardinals
Art Howe	41	Houston Astros
Ozzie Smith	41	San Diego Padres
Ron Cey	40	Los Angeles Dodgers	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. The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.