Games : 1935 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)
 

1935 Games Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Orville Jorgens 53 Philadelphia Phillies 1
Dizzy Dean 50 St. Louis Cardinals 2
Jim Bivin 47 Philadelphia Phillies 3
Paul Dean 46 St. Louis Cardinals 4
Bob Smith 46 Boston Braves  
Paul Derringer 45 Cincinnati Reds 6
Huck Betts 44 Boston Braves 7
Curt Davis 44 Philadelphia Phillies  
Dutch Leonard 43 Brooklyn Dodgers 9
Larry French 42 Chicago Cubs 10
Carl Hubbell 42 New York Giants  
Lon Warneke 42 Chicago Cubs  
Guy Bush 41 Pittsburgh Pirates 13
Pretzel Pezzullo 41 Philadelphia Phillies  
Fred Frankhouse 40 Boston Braves 15
Bill Hallahan 40 St. Louis Cardinals  
Al Smith 40 New York Giants  
Allyn Stout 40 New York Giants  
Ben Cantwell 39 Boston Braves 19
Waite Hoyt 39 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Bill Lee 39 Chicago Cubs  
Bill Swift 39 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Don Brennan 38 Cincinnati Reds 23
Benny Frey 38 Cincinnati Reds  
Al Hollingsworth 38 Cincinnati Reds  



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

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.