Wins : 1898 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:

"The baseball season - six months & 2,106 games - is flat out long, and it's a rare one of those games that doesn't ramble or sputter or digress or somehow violate the rules of dramatic narrative. Baseball takes its own sweet time reaching its conclusions." - Dwight Allen in Reds, Yanks and O's (1989)
 

1898 Wins Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Kid Nichols 31 Boston Beaneaters 1
Bert Cunningham 28 Louisville Colonels 2
Pink Hawley 27 Cincinnati Reds 3
Doc McJames 27 Baltimore Orioles  
Ted Lewis 26 Boston Beaneaters 5
Cy Seymour 25 New York Giants 6
Jesse Tannehill 25 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Vic Willis 25 Boston Beaneaters  
Cy Young 25 Cleveland Spiders  
Clark Griffith 24 Chicago Orphans 10
Wiley Piatt 24 Philadelphia Phillies  
Jay Hughes 23 Baltimore Orioles 12
Jack Powell 23 Cleveland Spiders  
Ted Breitenstein 20 Cincinnati Reds 14
Nixey Callahan 20 Chicago Orphans  
Al Maul 20 Baltimore Orioles  
Amos Rusie 20 New York Giants  
Fred Klobedanz 19 Boston Beaneaters 18
Bill Dammann 16 Cincinnati Reds 19
Red Donahue 16 Philadelphia Phillies  
Jack Dunn 16 Brooklyn Bridegrooms  
Frank Dwyer 16 Cincinnati Reds  
Brickyard Kennedy 16 Brooklyn Bridegrooms  
Frank Killen 16 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Washington Senators  
Bill Magee 16 Louisville Colonels  



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.

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.