Complete Games : 1962 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)
 

1962 Complete Games Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Warren Spahn 22 Milwaukee Braves 1
Art Mahaffey 20 Philadelphia Phillies 2
Billy O'Dell 20 San Francisco Giants  
Don Drysdale 19 Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Juan Marichal 18 San Francisco Giants 5
Bob Purkey 18 Cincinnati Reds  
Joey Jay 16 Cincinnati Reds 7
Bob Gibson 15 St. Louis Cardinals 8
Roger Craig 13 New York Mets 9
Bob Friend 13 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Jay Hook 13 New York Mets  
Jack Sanford 13 San Francisco Giants  
Al Jackson 12 New York Mets 13
Bob Shaw 12 Milwaukee Braves  
Ernie Broglio 11 St. Louis Cardinals 15
Turk Farrell 11 Houston Colt .45s  
Larry Jackson 11 St. Louis Cardinals  
Sandy Koufax 11 Los Angeles Dodgers  
Jim O'Toole 11 Cincinnati Reds  
Curt Simmons 9 St. Louis Cardinals 20
Bob Buhl 8 Milwaukee Braves 21
Chicago Cubs  
Johnny Podres 8 Los Angeles Dodgers  
Dennis Bennett 7 Philadelphia Phillies 23
Bob Hendley 7 Milwaukee Braves  
Vern Law 7 Pittsburgh Pirates  



The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

Jim Thome wore number twenty-five since he first came up with the Cleveland Indians making him the franchise record holder for that particular number (Mike Garcia is second).

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.