Top 25 Earned Run Average in 1902 in the American League

Earned Run Average : 1902 American League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)

1902 Earned Run Average Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Earned Run Average Team Rank

Ed Siever 1.91 (1.9115) Detroit Tigers 1

Rube Waddell 2.05 (2.0519) Philadelphia Athletics 2

Bill Bernhard 2.15 (2.1504) Philadelphia Athletics 3

Cleveland Blues

Cy Young 2.15 (2.1525) Boston Americans 4

Ned Garvin 2.21 (2.2072) Chicago White Stockings 5

Red Donahue 2.76 (2.7598) St. Louis Browns 6

Addie Joss 2.77 (2.7735) Cleveland Blues 7

Willie Sudhoff 2.86 (2.8636) St. Louis Browns 8

Bill Dinneen 2.93 (2.9327) Boston Americans 9

Earl Moore 2.95 (2.9488) Cleveland Blues 10

George Winter 2.99 (2.9941) Boston Americans 11

Win Mercer 3.04 (3.0355) Detroit Tigers 12

Roy Patterson 3.06 (3.0560) Chicago White Stockings 13

Jack Powell 3.21 (3.2071) St. Louis Browns 14

Eddie Plank 3.30 (3.3000) Philadelphia Athletics 15

Joe McGinnity 3.44 (3.4429) Baltimore Orioles 16

Tully Sparks 3.47 (3.4696) Boston Americans 17

Wiley Piatt 3.51 (3.5122) Chicago White Stockings 18

Nixey Callahan 3.60 (3.6021) Chicago White Stockings 19

George Mullin 3.67 (3.6692) Detroit Tigers 20

Roscoe Miller 3.69 (3.6928) Detroit Tigers 21

Tom Hughes 3.71 (3.7104) Baltimore Orioles 22

Boston Americans

Gene Wright 3.95 (3.9527) Cleveland Blues 23

Al Orth 3.97 (3.9722) Washington Senators 24

Bert Husting 3.99 (3.9906) Boston Americans 25

Philadelphia Athletics

Name Earned Run Average Team Rank

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.

The most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?

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

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