Greatest Ballplayers who never had a 100 walk season?

[Honus Wagner Rules]

The "DiMaggio's best season" thread got me thinking. Who are the greatest ballplayers who never drew 100 walks in a season? I suspect such a list would be dominated by Dead Ballers? Discuss!

[Ben Grimm]

My first guess would be Hank Aaron who never reached 100 over 23 years.

EDIT: Frank Robinson was pretty good as well. I think the list will be longer than one might think.

[GiambiJuice]

Ty Cobb 1911 or Hornsby in 1922 or '24 or '25.

Maybe even a Willie Mays season.

[Ben Grimm]

Ty Cobb 1911 or Hornsby in 1922 or '24 or '25.

Maybe even a Willie Mays season.

Very true, but I think he's talking about over a full career... though I could be wrong.

[chicagowhitesox1173]

Goerge Sisler probably coulda walked alot more if he had played in a different era.

[Honus Wagner Rules]

Just to clarify. My question is who are the greatest ballpayers who never had even one 100 walk season? Ty Cobb is disqualified since he had 118 walks in 1915.

[pheasant]

I will leave out the Deadball era since there are a lot of good choices there.

Right now, Chuck Klein comes to mind.

[BigRon]

I'm sure someone will search engine this soon and take all the fun out of it.

100 walks actually is a pretty high threshhold. I'm confident that there are many outstanding hitters who have never had a 100 walk season. In addition to thosae already mentioned, here are some more that I know of without looking them up.

Ernie Banks
Yogi Berra
Roberto Clemente
Rod Carew
Tony Gwynn
Andre Dawson
Ken Griffey Jr.
Al Kaline
Billy Williams

There are plenty more- some of it depends on your definition of great, but there's no shortage of outstandsing hitters who never reached 100.

[redban]

Almost all of the great catchers. Catchers don't typically draw lots of walks.

Mike Piazza
Yogi Berra
Gary Carter
Carlton Fisk
Roy Campanella
Gabby Hartnett
Ernie Lombardi
Bill Dickey
Pudge Rodriguez

Mickey Cochrane and Johnny Bench are the only two HOF catchers who got 100 BB. It's very rare.

[pheasant]

I know Ichiro Suzuki doesn't walk much at all. I'll take Suzuki for today's players.

[chicagowhitesox1173]

Paul Konerko may not be a alltime great but he never had 100 walks in a season.

[westsidegrounds]

Yogi Berra

Getting Yogi to take a walk was almost as tough as striking him out!

[BigRon]

Here's some more off the top of my head:

Tris Speaker (I had to look him up to be sure)
Harry Heilmann
Bill Terry
George Sisler
Al Simmons

[BigRon]

Forgot to add Honus Wagner.

[rsuriyop]

Forgot to add Honus Wagner.

And Lajoie.