| Player | TB | Walks | Total |
| Barry Bonds* | 5976 | 2558 | 8534 |
| Hank Aaron | 6856 | 1402 | 8258 |
| Babe Ruth | 5793 | 2062 | 7855 |
| Stan Musial | 6134 | 1599 | 7733 |
| Willie Mays | 6066 | 1464 | 7530 |
| Carl Yastrzemski | 5539 | 1845 | 7384 |
| Pete Rose | 5752 | 1566 | 7318 |
| Ty Cobb | 5854 | 1249 | 7103 |
| Ted Williams | 4884 | 2021 | 6905 |
| Ricky Henderson | 4588 | 2190 | 6778 |
Special Marlins Note: Andre Dawson didn't walk much, but he's No. 25 all time career in total bases, and the only persons above him who are not in the Hall of Fame are Barry Bonds*, Pete Rose (who did NOT cheat on the field), and Ken Griffey Jr., who's still playing. It's an outrage that Andre isn't in the Hall.
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Counting stats are dangerous things. You need look no further than Ted Williams to see the problem. You can certainly say that Williams is 10th on the list because of walks, but you can plausibly assert that the reason Williams is not first ls military service. Mays and Aaron might well have ended up in a dead heat had Mays not been drafted.
SB also need to be included--hundreds of Rickey's walks were turned into doubles or even triples by his speed.
No single stat captures everything you need to know to value a player. OPS+ captures more than TB plus walks, because it adjusts for the way baseball was played during the player's career. Hank Aaron's career OPS+ is 155; Ted Williams's is 191. They were both great great players.
Counting stats also tend to favor modern players, because they are paid such high salaries that they are motivated to player longer ...
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