Top 25 Earned Run Average in 1955 in the National League

Earned Run Average : 1955 National League Top 25

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"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)

1955 Earned Run Average Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Earned Run Average Team Rank

Bob Friend 2.83 (2.8303) Pittsburgh Pirates 1

Don Newcombe 3.20 (3.1969) Brooklyn Dodgers 2

Bob Buhl 3.21 (3.2132) Milwaukee Braves 3

Warren Spahn 3.26 (3.2605) Milwaukee Braves 4

Robin Roberts 3.28 (3.2754) Philadelphia Phillies 5

Johnny Antonelli 3.33 (3.3272) New York Giants 6

Joe Nuxhall 3.47 (3.4669) Cincinnati Redlegs 7

Paul Minner 3.48 (3.4820) Chicago Cubs 8

Murry Dickson 3.50 (3.5000) Philadelphia Phillies 9

Bob Rush 3.50 (3.5000) Chicago Cubs

Jim Hearn 3.73 (3.7323) New York Giants 11

Carl Erskine 3.79 (3.7911) Brooklyn Dodgers 12

Vern Law 3.81 (3.8123) Pittsburgh Pirates 13

Art Fowler 3.90 (3.9005) Cincinnati Redlegs 14

Johnny Podres 3.95 (3.9540) Brooklyn Dodgers 15

Lew Burdette 4.03 (4.0304) Milwaukee Braves 16

Sam Jones 4.10 (4.0965) Chicago Cubs 17

Gene Conley 4.16 (4.1582) Milwaukee Braves 18

Luis Arroyo 4.19 (4.1887) St. Louis Cardinals 19

Warren Hacker 4.27 (4.2676) Chicago Cubs 20

Larry Jackson 4.31 (4.3139) St. Louis Cardinals 21

Herm Wehmeier 4.41 (4.4148) Philadelphia Phillies 22

Harvey Haddix 4.46 (4.4567) St. Louis Cardinals 23

Ruben Gomez 4.56 (4.5648) New York Giants 24

Max Surkont 5.57 (5.5732) Pittsburgh Pirates 25

Name Earned Run Average Team Rank

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).

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.

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