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Can you name the MLB players (batters) with most career bases on balls?

Enter a batter (last names acceptable) in the box below
Correctly named batters will show up in the table below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
This game was contributed by Sporcle user: GeoExpert
Source: baseball-reference.com
Last updated 8-20-2009
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Rank	Player	Bases on Balls
1		2,558
2		2,190
3		2,062
4		2,021
5		1,865
6		1,845
7		1,733
8		1,708
9		1,667
10		1,616*
11		1,614
12		1,605
13		1,599

Rank	Player	Bases on Balls
14		1,566
15		1,559
16		1,508
17		1,507
18		1,499
19		1,471*
20		1,464
21		1,452
22		1,444
23		1,420
24		1,412
25		1,402

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	Mr_Negative:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 22:23 GMT	11 points
	You know who is no where near this list? Vlad Guerro, that guy swings at everything.

	ChrisB:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 22:32 GMT	20 points
	luckily, i have a cheat sheet next to my computer with Kyrgyzstan and Yastrzemski written on it

	Leeny:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 22:32 GMT	-2 points
	@Johntherev He currently is not an active player

	skyritz:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 22:33 GMT	18 points
	Only one "T" in Mathews.

	montecarlo:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 22:35 GMT	7 points
	me: "dammit, i spelled eddie mathews name wrong.' coworker: "no, they spelled it wrong.'

	ChipTaco:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 22:39 GMT	16 points
	Yeah, there's only the one "t" in Mathews. And was it just me, or did it take "Fox" for Foxx?

	jaspa:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 22:41 GMT	7 points
	I was surprised not to see any of the runners of the 98 home run race on here. It seemed like pitchers intentionally walked McGwire, Sosa, and Griffey every time they realistically could.

	HollywoodLeo:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 22:43 GMT	6 points
	Thank you for accepting "Yaz"

	Jaws12185:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 22:47 GMT	4 points
	There are two L's in Darrell Evans!!!!

	Deadpool:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 22:47 GMT	1 point
	Chipper Jones will be on this list soon.

	Sesel:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 22:48 GMT	1 point
	This is a great choice of color scheme because of #1 on this list.

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	notdanhoward:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 22:54 GMT	-2 points
	haha thanks for accepting 'yaz'

	LONG DON DIEGO:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 23:01 GMT	6 points
	JohnF- I know the point you are trying to make but his steroid use led to his great power and hittling which led to pitchers pitching around him.

	polacco:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 23:02 GMT	2 points
	Eddie Mathews is spelled wrong

	guyleguy:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 23:07 GMT	1 point
	It's a shame more casual baseball fans don't know who the 18th ranked guy is, one of the best to ever play the game but has been obscured by time.

	Mr_Negative:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 23:14 GMT	2 points
	@Long Don Diego I agree with you that he did get pitched around a bit. Bonds still had a pretty good eye though. Steroids can only make you hit the ball harder, not put the ball on the bat. He probably wouldn't have been as high, but still on the list w/o roids.

	s1rweeze:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 23:15 GMT	-3 points
	am I the only one that listed about 30 pitchers before realizing this was a quiz for hitters?

	guyleguy:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 23:15 GMT	8 points
	Long Don: Most people think Barry started juicing around 1999. You want to know his walk numbers from 1989 to 1998? 93, 93, 107, 127, 126, 74 (strike shortened season), 120, 151, 145, 130. Long before he ever even thought about juicing, Bonds had one of the greatest batting eyes in baseball history and, seeing as he had won three MVPs, was robbed of a 4th and routinely hit 35-45 homers a year, pitchers already feared him quite a bit.

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	Figment:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 23:20 GMT	-3 points
	Bonds got pitched around A LOT, not just a bit. I recall a team walking him with the bases loaded! Without the fear of Bonds launching one, which was obviously steroid enhanced, a good percentage of those walks don't happen. He did have a very good eye though and would have been somewhere on this list, just not at the top. In my mind, Rickey's still got this record just as much as Hammerin' Hank still has the HR record.

	Guinevere:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 23:20 GMT	6 points
	I sincerely doubt that Barry Bonds is the only one on the list who took performance enhancing drugs - my understanding is that they've been a part of baseball for a long time in one form or another. He's just everyone's favorite whipping boy.

	markymark:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 23:23 GMT	1 point
	I'm assuming an asterisk means that the player is still active based on other quizzes, but nowhere does it say that this is actually the case.

	JohnTheRev:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 23:30 GMT	0 points
	I love when tongue-in-cheek comments get taken seriously 'round these parts. This is a site to distract from being serious all day...

	Wes_Mantooth:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 23:55 GMT	-1 points
	Should not have accepted "Fox" for Foxx. Did it really accept "Yaz"? If so, it shouldn't have.

	JohnJF:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 00:00 GMT	2 points
	@Guinevere: Being a douchebag helps. Remember how much everybody loved Mark McGwire in 1998? We even named a freaking highway after him in St. Louis.

	kevincrumbs:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 00:03 GMT	5 points
	Wouldn't you not want to walk the all time leader in stolen bases? Really surprised that he's number two.

	giantsfreak830:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 00:12 GMT	3 points
	because he also had a great batting eye and played for freaking ever (always helps). And bonds got pitched around a lot BEFORE any steroid contreversy, the bases loaded intentional pass was before 2000, they were ALWAYS afraid of him, before steroids or after

	jd1z:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 00:15 GMT	0 points
	give pujols time and he'll easily be on here.

	OldHickory:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 00:18 GMT	-2 points
	I never knew there was an "E" in Rickey's name.

	Guinevere:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 00:23 GMT	2 points
	JohnJF: I recall McGwire getting pretty testy with reporters during the homerun race. People may have loved him, but he wasn't Mr. NiceGuy. I won't dispute that Barry is probably the bigger ass, but I think there are also other reasons McGwire was embraced. It wasn't his personality.

	bosoxfanzz:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 00:24 GMT	1 point
	@Mr. Negative: he hit a ball off the bounce the other day... lol.

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 00:25 GMT	2 points
	kevincrumbs, drawing walks is a batting skill, not just a failure (or concession) by the pitcher.

	SentioVenia:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 00:38 GMT	1 point
	@Chris: Nice. You may want to add Krzyzewski, too.

	HollywoodLeo:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 00:38 GMT	7 points
	Why is sarcasm so lost on sporcle users? It seems anytime a great sarcastic comment is made, such as JohnJF's, it's voted down.

	quiztaker:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 00:39 GMT	1 point
	Good Quiz, I'd also like to see one for pitchers.

	HollywoodLeo:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 00:41 GMT	0 points
	@Wes, why shouldn't it accept "Yaz"? The concept of these quizzes is to see if you know the answer to the question, in this case who leads baseball in career walks. It shouldn't have to be a spelling competition. If I'm on Jeopardy and Carl Yazstremski is the answer to the question (question to the answer?) I don't get marked off for not spelling his name right.

	GeoExpert:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 01:06 GMT	-2 points
	Pleasantly surprised this got published so quickly! I think the admins need to clarify that this is batters, not pitchers, and that asterisk means active