Complete Games : 1959 National League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)
 

1959 Complete Games Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Warren Spahn 21 Milwaukee Braves 1
Lew Burdette 20 Milwaukee Braves 2
Vern Law 20 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Robin Roberts 19 Philadelphia Phillies 4
Johnny Antonelli 17 San Francisco Giants 5
Don Newcombe 17 Cincinnati Reds  
Sam Jones 16 San Francisco Giants 7
Don Drysdale 15 Los Angeles Dodgers 8
Harvey Haddix 14 Pittsburgh Pirates 9
Bob Buhl 12 Milwaukee Braves 10
Gene Conley 12 Philadelphia Phillies  
Larry Jackson 12 St. Louis Cardinals  
Jim Owens 11 Philadelphia Phillies 13
Glen Hobbie 10 Chicago Cubs 14
Jack Sanford 10 San Francisco Giants  
Bob Purkey 9 Cincinnati Reds 16
Vinegar Bend Mizell 8 St. Louis Cardinals 17
Bob Anderson 7 Chicago Cubs 18
Roger Craig 7 Los Angeles Dodgers  
Bob Friend 7 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Ron Kline 7 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Mike McCormick 7 San Francisco Giants  
Ernie Broglio 6 St. Louis Cardinals 23
Sandy Koufax 6 Los Angeles Dodgers  
Danny McDevitt 6 Los Angeles Dodgers  



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.

Did you know that more than forty players have worn the number twenty-five for the Boston Red Sox — including Jack Clark, Denny Galehouse, Dizzy Trout and Tony Conigliaro.