Earned Run Average : 1906 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)
 

1906 Earned Run Average Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Mordecai Brown 1.04 (1.0385) Chicago Cubs 1
Jack Pfiester 1.51 (1.5080) Chicago Cubs 2
Ed Reulbach 1.65 (1.6514) Chicago Cubs 3
Vic Willis 1.73 (1.7329) Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Lefty Leifield 1.87 (1.8657) Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Jack Taylor 1.99 (1.9945) St. Louis Cardinals 6
Chicago Cubs  
Tully Sparks 2.16 (2.1600) Philadelphia Phillies 7
Dummy Taylor 2.20 (2.1972) New York Giants 8
Carl Lundgren 2.21 (2.2103) Chicago Cubs 9
Jake Weimer 2.22 (2.2155) Cincinnati Reds 10
Bill Duggleby 2.25 (2.2473) Philadelphia Phillies 11
Joe McGinnity 2.25 (2.2522) New York Giants 12
Hooks Wiltse 2.27 (2.2741) New York Giants 13
Sam Leever 2.32 (2.3163) Pittsburgh Pirates 14
Johnny Lush 2.37 (2.3701) Philadelphia Phillies 15
Bob Ewing 2.38 (2.3777) Cincinnati Reds 16
Lew Richie 2.41 (2.4068) Philadelphia Phillies 17
Vive Lindaman 2.43 (2.4306) Boston Beaneaters 18
Deacon Phillippe 2.47 (2.4695) Pittsburgh Pirates 19
Ed Karger 2.62 (2.6222) Pittsburgh Pirates 20
St. Louis Cardinals  
Buster Brown 2.64 (2.6434) St. Louis Cardinals 21
Red Ames 2.66 (2.6557) New York Giants 22
Chick Fraser 2.67 (2.6695) Cincinnati Reds 23
Elmer Stricklett 2.72 (2.7154) Brooklyn Superbas 24
Orval Overall 2.74 (2.7437) Cincinnati Reds 25
Chicago Cubs  



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.

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.

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