1961 Wins Leaders Top 25 in the National League
Name	Wins	Team	Rank
Joey Jay	21	Cincinnati Reds	1
Warren Spahn	21	Milwaukee Braves
Jim O'Toole	19	Cincinnati Reds	3
Lew Burdette	18	Milwaukee Braves	4
Sandy Koufax	18	Los Angeles Dodgers
Johnny Podres	18	Los Angeles Dodgers
Bob Purkey	16	Cincinnati Reds	7
Don Cardwell	15	Chicago Cubs	8
Stan Williams	15	Los Angeles Dodgers
Bob Friend	14	Pittsburgh Pirates	10
Larry Jackson	14	St. Louis Cardinals
Stu Miller	14	San Francisco Giants
Ray Sadecki	14	St. Louis Cardinals
Don Drysdale	13	Los Angeles Dodgers	14
Joe Gibbon	13	Pittsburgh Pirates
Bob Gibson	13	St. Louis Cardinals
Juan Marichal	13	San Francisco Giants
Mike McCormick	13	San Francisco Giants
Jack Sanford	13	San Francisco Giants
Art Mahaffey	11	Philadelphia Phillies	20
Jim Brosnan	10	Cincinnati Reds	21
Jack Curtis	10	Chicago Cubs
Dick Ellsworth	10	Chicago Cubs
Harvey Haddix	10	Pittsburgh Pirates
Lindy McDaniel	10	St. Louis Cardinals
Name	Wins	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. 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).