On Base Percentage : 1915 Federal 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)
 

1915 On Base Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the Federal League

Benny Kauff .446 (.44599) Brooklyn Tip-Tops 1
Ward Miller .400 (.40000) St. Louis Terriers 2
Babe Borton .395 (.39506) St. Louis Terriers 3
Steve Evans .392 (.39179) Brooklyn Tip-Tops 4
Baltimore Terrapins  
Claude Cooper .388 (.38816) Brooklyn Tip-Tops 5
Al Wickland .378 (.37823) Chicago Whales 6
Pittsburgh Rebels  
Baldy Louden .372 (.37244) Buffalo Buffeds 7
Marty Berghammer .371 (.37057) Pittsburgh Rebels 8
Jack Dalton .368 (.36810) Buffalo Buffeds 9
Mike Mowrey .367 (.36655) Pittsburgh Rebels 10
Jack Tobin .366 (.36638) St. Louis Terriers 11
Dutch Zwilling .366 (.36629) Chicago Whales 12
Max Flack .365 (.36460) Chicago Whales 13
Ed Konetchy .363 (.36290) Pittsburgh Rebels 14
Bill Rariden .361 (.36095) Newark Peppers 15
Les Mann .357 (.35700) Chicago Whales 16
Lee Magee .356 (.35579) Brooklyn Tip-Tops 17
Bobby Vaughn .356 (.35567) St. Louis Terriers 18
Al Scheer .353 (.35275) Newark Peppers 19
Vin Campbell .352 (.35242) Newark Peppers 20
Edd Roush .350 (.34958) Newark Peppers 21
Al Shaw .348 (.34818) Kansas City Packers 22
Benny Meyer .348 (.34774) Baltimore Terrapins 23
Buffalo Buffeds  
George Anderson .342 (.34151) Brooklyn Tip-Tops 24
Jim Kelly .340 (.34046) Pittsburgh Rebels 25



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.

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.

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).